Barbara Brandon-Croft
Barbara Brandon-Croft was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island. After debuting her comic strip Where I’m Coming From in the Detroit Free Press in 1989, Brandon-Croft became the first Black woman cartoonist to be published nationally by a major syndicate. During its 15 year run, Where I’m Coming From appeared in over 65 newspapers across the USA and Canada, as well as Jamaica, South Africa, and Barbados. Her comics are in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. Brandon-Croft lives in Queens.
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Barbara Brandon-Croft Featured Presenter at National Cartoonists Society Conference
Thursday, August 14, 2025 to Saturday, August 16, 2025
12:00am
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Barbara Brandon-Croft special guest at Boston Comics in Color from April 25-26
Friday, April 25, 2025 to Saturday, April 26, 2025
06:00pm
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STILL: Racism in America, A Retrospective in Cartoons comes to The UC Davis Design Museum
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 to Wednesday, April 24, 2024
12:00pm
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Barbara Brandon-Croft at the Boston Comics in Color Festival
Saturday, April 20, 2024 to Saturday, April 20, 2024
10:00am
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Barbara Brandon-Croft at the International School of Brooklyn
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
06:30pm
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Barbara Brandon-Croft to Appear on a Panel at the Karsh Institute of Democracy
Saturday, October 21, 2023 to Saturday, October 21, 2023
10:00am
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Barbara Brandon-Croft at the 2023 WinC Creative Conference
Sunday, October 8, 2023
10:00am
December 20, 2025
Where I’m Coming From recommended by NPR
“Andrew’s Recommendation: ‘Where I’m Coming From’ by Barbara Brandon-Croft”
October 25, 2023
One Cartoonist’s Story: A Mini Memoir
In this month’s Drawn to MoMA, the renowned cartoonist looks back on how her journey in comics started with her fathe...
July 20, 2023
Hyperallergic reviews Where I’m Coming From
Newspaper funny pages feel anachronistic these days, in a world where so much news content has moved out of newsprint an...
April 22, 2023
The Detroit Free Press interviews Barbara Brandon-Croft
In 1989, Barbara Brandon-Croft quit her job as a fashion reporter to pursue being a full-time cartoonist after the Detro...
February 27, 2023
Barbara Brandon-Croft appears on WNYC!
Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft made history in 1991 as the first Black woman to have a nationally syndicated comic str...
February 20, 2023
The Tyee interviews Barbara Brandon-Croft!
Barbara Brandon-Croft was the first Black woman to have a syndicated comic strip published for international audiences. ...
February 10, 2023
Wisconsin Public Radio interviews Barbara Brandon-Croft
Barbara Brandon-Croft made history with her pioneering comic strip, “Where I’m Coming From,” which ran fr...
February 8, 2023
Barbara Brandon-Croft interviewed on ABC News
ABC News interviews Barbara Brandon-Croft about Where I’m Coming From, being the first Black woman to enter mainst...
Where I’m Coming From in the Press!
February marked the release of the trailblazing collection by Barbara Brandon-Croft, the first nationally syndicated Black female cartoonist! The collection, Where I’m…