Biography
Black History in Its Own Words
Supplier: Image Comics A look at Black History framed by those who made it. BLACK HISTORY IN ITS OWN WORDS presents quotes of dozens of black luminaries with portraits & illustrations by RONALD WIMBERLY. Featuring the memorable words and depictions...
$16.99
Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday
Supplier: One Peace Books Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night...
$14.95
Bob Marley in Comics!
Supplier: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing In the middle of a depressing youth in a ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley sees only one way out: music. And that music will be what Jamaica made of rock and pop locally...
$27.99
Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani
Supplier: Selfmadehero Saudi Arabia offers few prospects for the bright young Mohammed El-Gharani. With roots in Chad, Mohammed is treated like a second-class citizen. His access to healthcare and education are restricted; nor can he make the most of his...
$24.99
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1975-1981
Supplier: Fantagraphics Books This encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop captures the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars like DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, plus the charismatic...
$27.99
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 2: 1981-1983
Supplier: Fantagraphics Books The second installment of this acclaimed graphic novel hip-hop history (originally serialized on the popular website Boing Boing) covers the years 1981-1983. 2015 Eisner Award Winner: Best Reality-Based Work. Covering the early years of 1981-1983, Hip Hop has...
$27.99
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984
Supplier: Fantagraphics Books This encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop captures the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars like DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, plus the charismatic...
$27.99
How I Tried to Be a Good Person
Supplier: Fantagraphics Books This graphic memoir is about obsession, gender conflict, and self-liberation, told with an honesty few cartoonists are capable of. Lust's follow-up to her first internationally lauded graphic memoir, How I Tried to Be a Good Person, picks up...
$34.99
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
Supplier: Clarkson Potter Publishers. “A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun “[A] high-spirited graphical...
$16.99
Knock Out!: The True Story of Emile Griffith
Supplier: Selfmadehero An intoxicating portrait of boxer Emile Griffith, an Afro-Caribbean-American bisexual athlete and one of the world’s greatest fighters The American boxing champion Emile Griffith gained notoriety in 1962 when he brutally defeated the Cuban fighter Benny Paret. Ten days...
$22.99
Love in Vain: Robert Johnson 1911-1938, the Graphic Novel
Supplier: Faber & Faber Social From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that...
$29.95
Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography
Supplier: Hill & Wang The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun. Enter Andrew Helfer, the award-winning graphic-novel editor behind Road to Perdition and The History of Violence, and welcome the launch of...
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Mandela and the General
Supplier: Plough Publishing House In this thrilling graphic novel, Nelson Mandela’s fight against racism is about to spiral into an all-out race war. Unless he can win over his archenemy, the white supremacist General Viljoen, the democratic struggle for equality and...
$19.95
Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies
Supplier: PM Press Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms in the forests. They didn’t just escape and steal from plantations—they also planted and harvested polycultures....
$15.95
Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution
Supplier: First Second "Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then―quickly, before the spell breaks!―play one of Monk's records." ―Saul WilliamsShe is Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter, a free-spirited baroness of the Rothschild family. He is Thelonious Sphere Monk, a musical genius...
$29.99
Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest
Supplier: Abrams Comicarts From Nate Powell, the National Book Award–winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protestIn seven interwoven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living...
$24.99
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Supplier: Ten Speed Press A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the...
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The Silence of Our Friends
Supplier: Square Fish A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of two families―one white and one black―who find common ground as the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas.This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967. A white...
$10.99
True War Stories
Supplier: Z2 Comics A sniper in Haiti faces the repercussions of the shot he never took. A team of SEALs help rescue a kidnapped girl in the Philippines. Army interpreters in Iraq battle their toughest foe: the rats of Saddam’s...
$24.99
42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Publisher: New York University Press Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacyBefore the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto...
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