Barbara Brandon-Croft became the first African-American woman to be nationally syndicated in the mainstream press in 1991. Her strip, Where I’m Coming From, featured nine opinionated black women and was distributed internationally for 14 years. A native New Yorker, she is part of an exclusive cartoonist dynasty. Brandon-Croft’s father, Brumsic Brandon, Jr. is one of the nation’s pioneer cartoonists with his nationally syndicated comic strip Luther which delivered a glaring view of what it’s like to grow up black in America’s inner-city. Both she and her dad are represented in the Library of Congress Graphic Arts Collection.