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Author:

Gill, Joel Christian, artist. artist.

Title:

Fights : one boy's triumph over violence / words and pictures, Joel Christian Gill ; colors, Shannon Scott.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oni Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

246 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Graphic novel.
Gill, Joel Christian--Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.--Comic books, strips, etc.
African American cartoonists--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.--Comic books, strips, etc.
Violence--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.

Other Authors:

Scott, Shannon, 1973- colorist.

Summary:

What happens when everything in the world around you wants to fight and all you want is to be a kid? Fights: One Boys Triumph Over Violence is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a poor Black child in a chaotic southern landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods during the crack cocaine boom of the 1980s. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everyone and everything around him. But fighting doesnt always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into.

ISBN:

154930335X
9781549303357

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1137194635

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