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King: The Complete Edition: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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King: The Complete Edition: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Paperback - 2005

by Ho Che Anderson; Introduction by Stanley Crouch

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Ho Che Anderson's long-awaited sequel to the graphic novel biography of the life and career of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ultimately traces the civil rights leader's life from his birth to assassination. Anderson's successful use of graphic novel to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to works by Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco.

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This groundbreaking body of comics journalism collects Anderson's entire biography of the renowned civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Over a decade in the making, the saga has been praised for its vivid recreation of one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S. history and for its accuracy in depicting the personal and public lives of King, from his birth to his assassination. King probes the life story of one of America's greatest public figures with an unflinchingly critical eye, casting King as an ambitious, dichotomous figure deserving of his place in history but not above moral sacrifice to get there. Anderson's expressionistic visual style is wrought with dramatic energy; panels evoke a painterly attention to detail but juxtapose with one another in such a way as to propel King's story with cinematic momentum. Anderson's successful use of the graphic novel to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Joe Sacco's Palestine, and Osamu Tezuka's Adolph.

King not only recreates the major events in King's public life, but chronicles the daily, rough-and-tumble, behind-the-scenes political maneuverings and strategic compromises that were required to mobilize millions of people toward a common goal. His internal debates with Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson and his hardball negotiations with John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson are dramatized. Anderson's achievement is not merely a political biography filled with names and dates, but a fully rounded portrait of a fallible human engaged in a superhuman effort his fears, his doubts, his relationship with his wife Coretta King, and his children are compassionately and truthfully rendered.

Anderson's visual approach includes the use of photographs, realistic portraiture, and expressionistic imagery alternating between stark black and white chiaroscuro and painterly full color. The dialogue is unflinchingly naturalistic and accurately reflects the moral urgency and labyrinthine political and practical complexities that King was navigating, from his deeply felt, personal commitment to a public cause to the wider political eruptions the country was experiencing. This is a respectful, unsparing, truthful biography of a man and his times that captures the moral and political gravitas of the cause as well as its human dimension. A major work of comics, depicting a major work of history.

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  • Title King: The Complete Edition: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Author Ho Che Anderson; Introduction by Stanley Crouch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition The Complete Edi
  • Pages 228
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, Washington
  • Publication date 2005-02-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781560976226 / 1560976225
  • Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.22 x 7.3 x 0.64 in (28.50 x 18.54 x 1.63 cm)
  • Age range 15 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 10 - 12
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Civil rights workers - United States
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 02/14/2005, Page 56
  • Quill & Quire, 04/01/2005, Page 41
  • School Library Journal, 09/01/2005, Page 241
  • SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/2005, Page 50

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