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Ho Che Andersons 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 leaders life from his birth to assassination. Andersons successful use of graphic novel to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to works by Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco. nThis groundbreaking body of comics journalism collects Andersons 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 Americas 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. Andersons 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 Kings story with cinematic momentum. Andersons successful use of the graphic novel to tell a major work of nonfiction has drawn favorable comparisons to Art Spiegelmans Maus: A Survivors Tale, Joe Saccos Palestine, and Osamu Tezukas Adolph. King not only recreates the major events in Kings 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. Andersons 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.Andersons 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
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