Title: Living on spongecake
Description: Living on Spongecake is the second volume in The Curtis Chronicles series. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley depicts the urban life of an eleven-year-old boy named Curtis and his family through daily and Sunday comics strips in the order they were originally published during the year 2001. Billingsley, adept at combining humor and pathos has created a work that is topical yet timeless, allowing it to cross race, age, or gender.
Subjects: African American boys, Comic books, strips, African American families, Pictorial American wit and humor
Places: United States