Torchy’s Togs, part of the Torchy Strong comic strip drawn by Jackie Ormes. Ormes was the first African-American woman cartoonist. She first created the Torchy Strong character in 1937, but it started running weekly in color in 1950 in the African American newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier. More on Jackie Ormes here. Source: ComicbookGRRRL

Torchy’s Togs, part of the Torchy Strong comic strip drawn by Jackie Ormes. Ormes was the first African-American woman cartoonist. She first created the Torchy Strong character in 1937, but it started running weekly in color in 1950 in the African American newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier.

More on Jackie Ormes here.

Source: ComicbookGRRRL

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