nannah
Written on Feb 3, 2022
I really love how more memoirs and biographies are now being recorded in graphic novel form. There’s lots of arguments to be had here for using this medium: it's easier to digest information that could be daunting when presented in a long biography, it's more accessible to a larger audience, etc., but in the volume itself there’s a mention of a comic about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott published in 1957, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. It helped educate people on how nonviolence could be used to fight segregation and Jim Crow laws. It's fitting that to help spread information about the civil rights movement now, this memoir is also in graphic novel format.
This first volume begins in John Lewis’s childhood, where he lived on his parent’s farm and loved his chickens dearly. It then follows his college life, where he had his first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. As John Lewis becomes part of the movement, the graphic novel widens its lens.
The information here is, of course, invaluable. Not only that, it’s just really well done. The art is also stunning. I’m in love with the tone and the curves and the line quality.
I look forward to reading the rest.
