Colorful History: Jerry Lawson and Channel F

Written by Matt Slayter, Illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson
Lettered by R. Alan Brooks

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SOURCES AND WORKS CITED

Lawson, Jerry. Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer. Interview by Benj Edwards. Vintage Computing and Gaming, February 24th, 2009, https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/545. Accessed February 2022

Yitbarek, Saron, host. “Jerry Lawson: The Engineer Who Changed the Game.” Command Line Heroes, season 6, episode 1, Red Hat, October 13, 2020, https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/jerry-lawson.

“Boom & Bust.” High Score, created by France Costrel, season 1, episode 1, Netflix, 2020.

Bowman, Emma. “Their Dad Transformed Video Games In The 1970s – And Passed On His Pioneering Spirit.” NPR, 17 September, 2021,

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1037911107/jerry-lawson-video-game-fairchild-channel-f-black-engineer

Edwards, Benj. “The Untold Story Of The Invention Of The Game Cartridge.” Fast Company, 22 January, 2015. https://www.fastcompany.com/3040889/the-untold-story-of-the-invention-of-the-game-cartridge

Shaw, Andrew. “Jerry Lawson: The Black Engineer Who Created Gaming As We Know It.” The Digital Fix, 20 August, 2020,

https://www.thedigitalfix.com/gaming/feature/jerry-lawson-the-black-engineer-who-created-gaming-as-we-know-it/