.danafour chats with EliColomba & Aurelie Levy about their upcoming graphic novel Queenie: Godmother of Harlem, which tells the story of a Black female boss who ran an uptown numbers game during the Harlem Renaissance.
is an enthralling look at St. Clair’s rise and rule during the Harlem Renaissance. While details are scarce about her youth, St. Clair spoke fluent French and English as well as Spanish and was one of many African Americans that joined the Great Migration in the early 1900s. As Harlem flourished around her with the new music, art, and literary scene, St. Clair built up a numbers racket akin to the modern lottery, which netted around $100,000 for Queenie at its height.
“It was always important to her that both my sister and I were aware of and knowledgeable about persons that populated our history—whether intellectual figures like Cesaire, Fanon, or Zobel, or like Stephanie: a woman who chose to play her cards altogether differently,” she said. “I drew five pages and talked to Aurelie about Stephanie St Clair and the idea of a graphic
“Fascinatingly, one of my collectors found out that fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald in fact worked as a runner for the illegal numbers game,” Colomba said. “While too late for us to incorporate it in the script, it’s a wonderful nugget, and one which I’d never have gleaned if it weren’t for Stephanie.”
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