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This is on point. I'm Meghachro Bardy. In 1989, Barbara Brandon Croft got her own comic strip in the Detroit Free Press.

She was so excited that she quit her reporting job at Essence magazine to pursue being a comic strip artist full time.

Problem is, it paid just $75 a week. That's about 180 bucks a week in today's money. So Brandon

Croft knew that if she wanted to do it full time she needed to be published in many more papers.

She needed to be nationally syndicated.

So she reached out to the syndication companies, and she got a lot of rejection letters.

But she also received one yes.

And with that, Brandon Croft made history

with her comic strip where I'm coming from. And her story and a collection of her

comic strips from 1991 to 2005 are in a new book also titled Where I'm

coming from and Barbara Brandon Croft joins us today from New York.

Welcome to Onpoint.

Thank you.

I can't tell you what a joy it is to be able to talk with you today so I'm so grateful that you're with us.

I'm wondering if you could start by actually telling us more about that story of how you reached out to the syndication companies because you wrote a

you wrote a letter submitted some of your sample comic strips with it and the letter itself

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