Run: Book One (Run, 1) - Hardcover

Lewis, John; Aydin, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 141973069X ISBN 13: 9781419730696

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2021

Synopsis

First you MARCH
Then you RUN
THE STORY OF JOHN LEWIS CONTINUES
 
From the bestselling, award-winning authors John Lewis and Andrew Aydin comes their next groundbreaking graphic novel--Run: Book One--illustrated by rising star Afua Richardson and featuring contributions by Nate Powell. 
 
Told in multiple parts, Run is the next chapter of John Lewis' involvement in the civil rights movement and public life after the March saga. The books bring to the page the true story of John Lewis and many of his colleagues in the movement after the historic success of the Selma campaign. Opening two days after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, John Lewis and his colleagues are arrested and taken to jail in Americus, Georgia, as the largest hooded Klan march in years takes shape on the courthouse steps. Run: Book One takes readers through the behind-the-scenes struggle to exercise the hard-won rights of people of color to register, vote, and secure equal representation in their elected leaders, all the while facing escalating tensions over continued American involvement in Vietnam.

About this title

About the Author:

Congressman John Lewis is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and is the US Representative for Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District. An American icon known for his role in the civil rights movement, Lewis first joined the movement as a seminary student in Nashville, organizing sit-ins and participating in the first Freedom Ride, which challenged illegal segregation at bus stations across the South. He soon became the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and one of the “Big Six” national leaders of the movement, alongside such figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and A. Philip Randolph. As SNCC chairman, Lewis was an architect of, and the youngest featured speaker at, the historic 1963 March on Washington, and was a key figure in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. Together with Hosea Williams, Lewis led the landmark “Bloody Sunday” march in Selma, Alabama, where police brutality spurred national outrage and hastened passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Lewis is also the author of the award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel memoir series March. John Lewis spends his time between Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, DC.
 
Andrew Aydin is the creator and co-author of the graphic novel memoir series, March. An Atlanta native, Andrew was raised by a single mother and grew up reading comic books. In 2008, Congressman Lewis mentioned to Andrew the 1957 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story and the role it played in the early days of the civil rights movement. Recognizing the potential for a comic on Congressman Lewis’s life to inspire young people, Andrew urged him to write a comic about his time in the movement, but Congressman Lewis had one condition: that Andrew write it with him. Collaborating with artist Nate Powell, the first volume of the March trilogy was published in 2013. Aydin has written for comics such as Bitch Planet and X-Files as well as for Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Horn Book Review, and Creative Loafing. He continues to serve as Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Congressman Lewis in Washington, DC.
 
Afua Richardson is the illustrator of the Readers’ Choice Award–winning, politically potent miniseries Genius by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman. Other works include Black Panther: World of Wakanda, X-Men ’92, Captain Marvel, Captain America, and many others. In the spirit of the Nina Simone Award she received for Artistic Excellence, Richardson has been aptly called a “Jane of All Trades.” She lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
 
Nate Powell is a New York Times bestselling, award-winning graphic novelist. His work includes March, Rick Riordan’s The Lost Hero, and the upcoming Come Again. Powell is the first and only cartoonist to win the National Book Award. He lives in Indiana.
 

Review:

`On Thursday, the Congressman and his publisher announced that his next book project, to be called Run, will be another multi-part graphic novel, picking up where March left off. "In sharing my story, it is my hope that a new generation will be inspired by Run to actively participate in the democratic process and help build a more perfect union here in America," Lewis said in a statement.' Time Magazine "Rep. John Lewis's story as a civil-rights leader is so big, even three graphic novels couldn't tell it all..."Run," its first volume slated for release in August, continues the story, following him through the backlash against the civil-rights movement and the tensions that helped splinter it, putting him on the path that would ultimately lead him to Congress." The Wall Street Journal `...Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil-rights hero who documented some of his story in the acclaimed graphic-novel memoir "March" - and who will continue to chronicle his civil rights fight in the recently announced comic book "Run."'' Washington Post "Rep. John Lewis' graphic memoir series for young readers, "March," about his civil rights work with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was supposed to be a trilogy. But a new book, "Run," is coming, and more are on the way. Lewis, a civil rights hero, won the National Book Award for "March: Book Three." Abrams ComicArts will publish the next book, "Run: Book One" in August, the publisher said in a news release. Based on Lewis' experiences as a young man in the civil rights movement, "Run" picks up where "March" left off, telling the story of his struggle to lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, for which he was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Lewis rejoins his "March" co-authors, writer Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell, and add a new illustrator in the mix, Afua Richardson. Richardson is known for her work on Marvel's "Black Panther World of Wakanda" and "Genius" by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman." The Los Angeles Times online

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 141973069X
• ISBN 13: 9781419730696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Fury L., Powell Nate