Satchel Paige:Striking Out Jim Crow
This is the second — after Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi’s Harry Houdini: The Handcuff King, released about six months back — in the ongoing series of young adult comics biographies being produced under the auspices of The Center for Cartoon Studies. Satchel Paige is another striking exemplar of the humble yet heroic character that captures what is best about America. Sturm is the head of CCS for a reason: he knows how to employ the language of comics to do what comics does best: tell stories and show character. Paige comes alive on the page as the reader gets to see his life unfold from a number of different perspectives, each offering a different facet of Paige’s character and career.
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