March: Book Two is now available on comiXology!
After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence - but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before.
Faced with beatings, police brutality, imprisonment, arson, and even murder, the young activists of the movement struggle with internal conflicts as well. But their courage will attract the notice of powerful allies, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy… and once Lewis is elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, this 23-year-old will be thrust into the national spotlight, becoming one of the “Big Six” leaders of the civil rights movement and a central figure in the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Kevin’s Picks of The Week (10/09/2013)
- PICK OF THE WEEK: Motorcycle Samurai #1: Overture: GVN FTW! A super fun comic that is just a blast to read! Really looking forward to where this story.
- Archer and Armstrong #14: Things are getting down right intense, for the guys as Valiant gears up to finish 2013 with some of their best books yet. Jump on board here, and get ready, the road ahead looks wild!
- Batman ‘66 #15: Colleen Coover drawing Retro Style Barbara Gordon Batgirl. What more needs to be said?
- Coffin Hill #1: This book is straight up spooky, like classic Sandman spooky, and it is just so great to see such a fresh creative team deliver on a book everyone had high hopes for.
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John Lewis’ on ‘March’
“This graphic novel will make it very plain and real simple, with illustrations of how we came to understand the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence,” Lewis explained. “It is a way of saying to young people, to children, ‘You too can be part of a movement. You can be part of a new civil rights movement to help free those that have been left out and left behind.’”
via BillMoyers.com
Come meet Congressman John Lewis, a true American Hero this Saturday at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda Maryland!
March is an amazing graphic novel. Be sure to say hi to Congressman Lewis for us at SPX this weekend.
Diana Thung has been nominated for a Promising New Talent Award at this year’s Ignatz. Check out her Top Shelf Comics work including two FREE 10 page previews of August Moon and Splendor In the Snow on comiXology as we continue the countdown to SPX.
Comic Con is only two days away! Whether you’re flying, driving, or walking to San Diego, you’re going to need comics to keep you busy, which is why we’ve partnered up with Top Shelf for a MASSIVE sale.
With Eisner-winners like League of Extraordinary Gentleman to this year’s newest Eisner-nominee WIZZYWIG, your Comic-Con reading list just got a little longer.
