King A Comics Biography TPB (2021 Fantagraphics) The Complete Edition comic books
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Published Nov 2021 by Fantagraphics.$12.00
$12.00
1st printing. Collects King GN (1993-2003 Fantagraphics) Vol. 1-3.
Story and art by Ho Che Anderson. Introduction by Stanley Crouch.
Ho Che 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's Maus: A survivor's Tale and Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995.
King won a1995 Parents' Choice Award.
Softcover, 228 pages, full color. Mature Readers
Cover price $29.99.
