| Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence Contributor(s): Gill, Joel Christian (Author), Gill, Joel Christian (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 154930335X ISBN-13: 9781549303357 Publisher: Oni Press OUR PRICE: $16.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Comics & Graphic Novels | Nonfiction - Biography & Memoir |
| Dewey: 741.597 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020 YALSA 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 Cartoonists Prize for Print Comics 2021 Eisner Awards Best Publication for Teens Nominee Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't 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, as Joel learns in a series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learned about what it truly means to fight for one's life. "FIGHTS is somehow brutally raw, funny as hell, deeply sensitive and insightful in each panel." -- Nate Powell (March trilogy) |
