Also during this time, Feelings collaborated with his then-wife, Muriel Feelings, on three children's books, Zamani Goes to Market (1970) Jambo Means Hello (1971), a Caldecott Honor Book (1972) and Moja Means One: A Swahili Counting Book (1974), another Caldecott Honor Book (1974). In 1971, Feelings was invited by the government of Guyana to work as a consultant and teacher for the Ministry of Education he trained young artists in textbook illustration and oversaw the creation of children's books. Upon returning to the States in 1966, Feelings began freelance illustration for books of African stories including Bola and the Oba's Drummers (1967), The Tuesday Elephant (1968), and Black Folktales (1969). In 1964, Feelings moved to Ghana to work as an illustrator for African Review Magazine and to teach illustration at the Ghana Government Publishing House his work was inspired by the complexity and beauty of Africa. After returning to Brooklyn and being inspired by the children of New Orleans, Feelings shifted his focus to illustrating children and began visiting schools in Bedford-Stuyvesant to encourage children to draw. From 1959-1964, he worked as a freelance artist and traveled to New Orleans for Look magazine and The Reporter magazine for featured articles titled "The Negro in the USA" and "Images of the South," respectively. After his service, while continuing his studies at the School of Visual Arts (1958-1960), Feelings created the comic strip, Tommy Traveler in the World of Negro History, which was published in the Harlem-based New York Age, and mostly depicted the urban Black community (the comic strip would be published as a book in 1991). From 1951-1953, Feelings attended the Cartoonist and Illustrators School (now School of Visual Arts) in New York City, after which he joined the United States Air Force (1953-1957) as an illustrator in the Graphics Division in London, England.
Tom Feelings was a children's book illustrator, cartoonist, educator, and activist committed to educating people of color through his artwork, books, and lectures.īorn in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, Feelings was drawn to art at a very young age.
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