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Review by Ian Keogh
It’s strange there’s been no American graphic distillation of Angela Davis and her achievements, so there’s a welcome for this French project from Sybelle Titeux de la Croix and Améziane, who’s become Amazing since earlier translated work.
Davis has lived a life fighting for better conditions and treatment for people she believes don’t get a fair shake in the USA, and protesting against other iniquities, first coming to prominence voicing opposition to the Vietnam War.
A conflated narrative voice is used alongside quotes from Davis’ own writings after a jump back to her childhood recollections of hatred and injustice. The presentation indicates this isn’t a standard biography, but a collection of flashpoints, almost all of which occurred during the s or further back, so this is no comfort memoir either, showing how everything turned out okay in the end. However, regarding the Davis that became known to the public it’s thorough. As it progresses a parallel social history is introduced, detailing the events and protests that motivate Davis as it tracks her life through college. In places de la Croix uses a pinboard method of conjoining events mixing quotes with news reports and personal recollections for a novel educational brew.
Améziane’s approach is eq
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King: The Conclusion Edition
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Honoring an American Hero
Two years ago, as Donald Trump was ushered in as president he was also simultaneously responsible for skyrocketing sales of March, the graphic novelization of the life of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis. Inadvertently responsible, to be sure.
Nevertheless, it gained an incredible bump of more than one hundred thousand percent. And any escalation in literacy is cause for celebration these days. Especially when it encompasses visual literacy. And even more particularly so when the book pays tribute to someone who continues stand up against racism more than 50 years after having been beaten and arrested for peacefully protesting.
So it seems time to revisit a related graphic novel bio, groundbreaking and critically acclaimed when first released, on the life of Lewis’s mentor and marching buddy. I’m referring here to King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intense, Energetic Expressiveness
Like March, King began as a three-part serialized comic book. The first issue hit the stands back in , and the last in Four years later it was collected and bound as a volume. But King also differentiates itself in a number of ways. Artist/writer Ho Che Anderson honors Reverend King’s visions, methods, and enormous achievements, but doesn’t o