![]() ![]() ![]() What would underpin the narrative, however, were strategies for action, boldly illustrated. ![]() He also persuaded Lewis, who had already published Walking With the Wind: Memoir of the Movement (1998), that comics was a compelling medium for this firsthand account of the Civil Rights Movement. Lewis’ collaborators on March were comics creator Nate Powell and Congressional aide Andrew Aydin Aydin wrote his master’s thesis on the 16-page Montgomery Story. Although ignored by mainstream comics companies, t he Montgomery Story enjoyed grassroots distribution and popularity. ![]() March is the illustrated autobiography of Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, and it takes inspiration partly from Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a short 1950s comic book that shows how nonviolent resistance by Rosa Parks and participants in the Montgomery bus boycott could function as tools for desegregation. In the year since its appearance, the work has only gained relevance. Book Three of the March graphic memoir trilogy arrived in summer 2016-the season of Orlando, Brexit, Zika, the mediated dawn of the “alt-right,” and the killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. ![]()
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