Ho Che Anderson - King : A Comics Biography FB2, MOBI, EPUB
9781606993101 English 1606993100 Ho Che Anderson has spent over 10 years researching, writing, and drawing King, a monumental graphic biography that liberates Martin Luther King Jr. from the saintly, one-dimensional, hagiographic image so prevalent in pop culture. Here is King â€father, husband, politician, deal broker, idealist, pragmatist, inspiration to millions â€brought to vivid, flesh-and-blood life. Out of print since 2006, King is Fantagraphics' most-requested reprint. In recognition of the advances made in American social equality that has made it possible to elect America "s first black President, Fantagraphics Books is publishing King: The Special Edition, a newly designed volume that includes the original 240-page graphic biography, as well as nearly a hundred additional pages of Sextras, including: SBlack Dogs is a 14-page prelude to King, a dialogue between a young black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of the Rodney King upheaval, a raw and inflected conversation between husband and wife and their racial attitudes in a post-King world; Excerpts from the diary and notebook the author kept when researching and writing King, with interstitial notes written specifically for this volume commenting on the method he used to conceived and execute the book; Preparatory sketches, discarded images and pages, an interview conducted at the time of the third volume "s publication, and excerpts from the draft of the script; An epilogue titled SAssassin, written and drawn for this new edition, in which Anderson explores the question of whether James Earl Ray actually shot King. Caroline Longstreet, one of the observers who comments on King "s life throughout the book, is obsessed with the assassination, won "t let it rest, and pursues her own private investigation and ultimately confronts the reasons why it "s held her in its grip so long. Anderson "s biography traces King "s life from his childhood in Atlanta and his education at Booker T. Washington High School, and his subsequent centrality to the civil rights movement when, in 1955, he organized the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott; his founding of the Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1957; his Nobel Prize in 1964; his help in organizing the 1966 March on Washington and his SI Have a Dream speech; and the tragic moment on April 4, 1968 when he was shot dead on the balcony of the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Anderson "s expressionistic visual style is wrought with dramatic energy; panels evoke a painterly attention to detail but whose juxtapositions propel King "s story with cinematic momentum. Anderson "s successful use of the comics form to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to Art Spiegelman "s Maus: A Survivor "s Tale and Joe Sacco "s Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995. King won a 1995 Parents " Choice Award., Ho Che Anderson's biography of America's great civil rights advocate Martin Luther King is both a monumental recreation of his tumultuous public life (and death) and an intimate portrait of the man as politician, friend, lover, husband, and father. With the triumphant ascendancy of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States, Martin Luther King's advocacy for racial equality and the dignity of all men stands as one of the greatest and most successful achievements toward social justice in the 20th century. This Special Edition of King includes the original 240 page graphic novel as well many unique and original additions, including an essay by the author on the making of the book, prelimi nary sketches, pages of the typescript, visual breakdowns, "deleted scenes," and a prelude about race relations in contemporary America entitled Black Dogs., In King , Ho Che Anderson rendered Martin Luther King Jr.'s life fromhis childhood in Atlanta to his tragic assassination in an expressionisticvisual style that propelled King's story with cinematic momentum: in doing so,he created a monumental graphic biography that liberated King from the saintly,one-dimensional, hagiographic image so prevalent in pop culture. Out of printsince 2006, Fantagraphics Books is publishing a newly designed volume, King:The Special Edition , that includes the original 240-page book as well asnearly a hundred additional pages of "extras," including:"Black Dogs," a 14-page prelude which features a dialogue between ayoung black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of theRodney King riots; excerpts from the author's work diary; sketches; excerptsfrom the draft of the script; and an all-new epilogue titled"Assassin," written and drawn especially for this new edition. Thisbook is a must-have for libraries and is a wonderful educational resource forhigh school-aged-and-up students, as well as African-American Studiesprograms., Out of print since 2006, King is Fantagraphics' most-requested reprint. In recognition of the advances made in American social equality that has made it possible to elect America s first black President, Fantagraphics Books is publishing King: The Special Edition, a newly designed volume that includes the original 240-page graphic biography, as well as nearly a hundred additional pages of extras, including: Black Dogs is a 14-page prelude to King, a dialogue between a young black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of the Rodney King upheaval, a raw and inflected conversation between husband and wife and their racial attitudes in a post-King world;Excerpts from the diary and notebook the author kept when researching and writing King, with interstitial notes written specifically for this volume commenting on the method he used to conceived and execute the book;Preparatory sketches, discarded images and pages, an interview conducted at the time of the third volume s publication, and excerpts from the draft of the script;An epilogue titled Assassin, written and drawn for this new edition, in which Anderson explores the question of whether James Earl Ray actually shot King. Caroline Longstreet, one of the observers who comments on King s life throughout the book, is obsessed with the assassination, won t let it rest, and pursues her own private investigation and ultimately confronts the reasons why it s held her in its grip so long.Anderson s biography traces King s life from his childhood in Atlanta and his education at Booker T. Washington High School, and his subsequent centrality to the civil rights movement when, in 1955, he organized the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott; his founding of the Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1957; his Nobel Prize in 1964; his help in organizing the 1966 March on Washington and his I Have a Dream speech; and the tragic moment on April 4, 1968 when he was shot dead on the balcony of the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee Anderson s expressionistic visual style is wrought with dramatic energy; panels evoke a painterly attention to detail but whose juxtapositions propel King s story with cinematic momentum. Anderson s successful use of the comics form to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to Art Spiegelman sMaus: A Survivor s Tale and Joe Sacco s Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995. King won a 1995 Parents Choice Award. "
9781606993101 English 1606993100 Ho Che Anderson has spent over 10 years researching, writing, and drawing King, a monumental graphic biography that liberates Martin Luther King Jr. from the saintly, one-dimensional, hagiographic image so prevalent in pop culture. Here is King â€father, husband, politician, deal broker, idealist, pragmatist, inspiration to millions â€brought to vivid, flesh-and-blood life. Out of print since 2006, King is Fantagraphics' most-requested reprint. In recognition of the advances made in American social equality that has made it possible to elect America "s first black President, Fantagraphics Books is publishing King: The Special Edition, a newly designed volume that includes the original 240-page graphic biography, as well as nearly a hundred additional pages of Sextras, including: SBlack Dogs is a 14-page prelude to King, a dialogue between a young black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of the Rodney King upheaval, a raw and inflected conversation between husband and wife and their racial attitudes in a post-King world; Excerpts from the diary and notebook the author kept when researching and writing King, with interstitial notes written specifically for this volume commenting on the method he used to conceived and execute the book; Preparatory sketches, discarded images and pages, an interview conducted at the time of the third volume "s publication, and excerpts from the draft of the script; An epilogue titled SAssassin, written and drawn for this new edition, in which Anderson explores the question of whether James Earl Ray actually shot King. Caroline Longstreet, one of the observers who comments on King "s life throughout the book, is obsessed with the assassination, won "t let it rest, and pursues her own private investigation and ultimately confronts the reasons why it "s held her in its grip so long. Anderson "s biography traces King "s life from his childhood in Atlanta and his education at Booker T. Washington High School, and his subsequent centrality to the civil rights movement when, in 1955, he organized the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott; his founding of the Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1957; his Nobel Prize in 1964; his help in organizing the 1966 March on Washington and his SI Have a Dream speech; and the tragic moment on April 4, 1968 when he was shot dead on the balcony of the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Anderson "s expressionistic visual style is wrought with dramatic energy; panels evoke a painterly attention to detail but whose juxtapositions propel King "s story with cinematic momentum. Anderson "s successful use of the comics form to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to Art Spiegelman "s Maus: A Survivor "s Tale and Joe Sacco "s Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995. King won a 1995 Parents " Choice Award., Ho Che Anderson's biography of America's great civil rights advocate Martin Luther King is both a monumental recreation of his tumultuous public life (and death) and an intimate portrait of the man as politician, friend, lover, husband, and father. With the triumphant ascendancy of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States, Martin Luther King's advocacy for racial equality and the dignity of all men stands as one of the greatest and most successful achievements toward social justice in the 20th century. This Special Edition of King includes the original 240 page graphic novel as well many unique and original additions, including an essay by the author on the making of the book, prelimi nary sketches, pages of the typescript, visual breakdowns, "deleted scenes," and a prelude about race relations in contemporary America entitled Black Dogs., In King , Ho Che Anderson rendered Martin Luther King Jr.'s life fromhis childhood in Atlanta to his tragic assassination in an expressionisticvisual style that propelled King's story with cinematic momentum: in doing so,he created a monumental graphic biography that liberated King from the saintly,one-dimensional, hagiographic image so prevalent in pop culture. Out of printsince 2006, Fantagraphics Books is publishing a newly designed volume, King:The Special Edition , that includes the original 240-page book as well asnearly a hundred additional pages of "extras," including:"Black Dogs," a 14-page prelude which features a dialogue between ayoung black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of theRodney King riots; excerpts from the author's work diary; sketches; excerptsfrom the draft of the script; and an all-new epilogue titled"Assassin," written and drawn especially for this new edition. Thisbook is a must-have for libraries and is a wonderful educational resource forhigh school-aged-and-up students, as well as African-American Studiesprograms., Out of print since 2006, King is Fantagraphics' most-requested reprint. In recognition of the advances made in American social equality that has made it possible to elect America s first black President, Fantagraphics Books is publishing King: The Special Edition, a newly designed volume that includes the original 240-page graphic biography, as well as nearly a hundred additional pages of extras, including: Black Dogs is a 14-page prelude to King, a dialogue between a young black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of the Rodney King upheaval, a raw and inflected conversation between husband and wife and their racial attitudes in a post-King world;Excerpts from the diary and notebook the author kept when researching and writing King, with interstitial notes written specifically for this volume commenting on the method he used to conceived and execute the book;Preparatory sketches, discarded images and pages, an interview conducted at the time of the third volume s publication, and excerpts from the draft of the script;An epilogue titled Assassin, written and drawn for this new edition, in which Anderson explores the question of whether James Earl Ray actually shot King. Caroline Longstreet, one of the observers who comments on King s life throughout the book, is obsessed with the assassination, won t let it rest, and pursues her own private investigation and ultimately confronts the reasons why it s held her in its grip so long.Anderson s biography traces King s life from his childhood in Atlanta and his education at Booker T. Washington High School, and his subsequent centrality to the civil rights movement when, in 1955, he organized the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott; his founding of the Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1957; his Nobel Prize in 1964; his help in organizing the 1966 March on Washington and his I Have a Dream speech; and the tragic moment on April 4, 1968 when he was shot dead on the balcony of the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee Anderson s expressionistic visual style is wrought with dramatic energy; panels evoke a painterly attention to detail but whose juxtapositions propel King s story with cinematic momentum. Anderson s successful use of the comics form to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to Art Spiegelman sMaus: A Survivor s Tale and Joe Sacco s Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995. King won a 1995 Parents Choice Award. "