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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.
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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 seria
