Summer of Hamn HC (2023 Enemy Books) comic books
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Published Sep 2023 by Enemy Books.$22.00
$22.00
1st printing. Story and art by Chuck D. In Summer of Hamn, legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhythmic, inventive writing and passionately raw art. Summer of Hamn is the bound journal Chuck D carried with him in the summer of 2022-a summer marked by a particularly high rate of gun death. In these pages, victims are memorialized, politicians are skewered, and vehement pleas to eradicate gun violence are made. Jaw-dropping statistics (40% of all personal guns in the world are owned by US citizens; there are 100 million more guns in the US than there are citizens) intersect with poetic reflections ("Another mall shooting seems normalized in Columbus / Raining outside in Ohio / Raining inside folks panic / Inside hearing shots bust"), all written in Chuck's hand over vibrant, utterly original, neoexpressionist ink and watercolor art. Hardcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 240 pages, full color. Cover price $34.99.
