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MARCH cameo on "The Proud Family"!

It’s amazing to see that March made its way into a scene of the new The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder series on Disney Plus! Congressman Lewis would be beaming. Thanks to everyone who gave me a heads up!

Happy birthday John Lewis.

Happy birthday and loving memories of the great John Lewis, who would’ve turned 82 today. An unfulfilled plan from early on in our collaboration was to go fishing back at a pond back on his family’s land in Alabama— so that’s what I’ve conjured here over the weekend.

Today I’ll be privately enjo...

SAVE IT FOR LATER-- new paperback edition out August 9th w/ extra material!

I’m happy to announce that a new paperback edition of Save It For Later will be released by Abrams ComicArts on August 9th, with an extra 16 pages of material!

This edition clocks in at 176 pages and includes an in-depth, sourced conversation between fellow cartoonist Derf Backderf (Kent State,...

"Shelf It"-- new book-ban comic up at the Nib today.

My new comic is up at The Nib: some early warning signs of this wave of book bans and intimidation while making March back in 2014, with comics as an easy target to remove truthful historical accounts from the classroom.

Please read and share on whatever platforms you may use— and importantly, ...

New book-ban comic at the Nib next week.

I just finished up a short comic yesterday about book bans/challenges, intimidation of teachers & librarians, and “memory laws”, filtered through comics and our own early experiences making March, seeing early stirrings of this back in 2014.

It’ll be published next Tuesday, February 1st at The ...

New podcast interview about SAVE IT FOR LATER + MARCH + RUN + COME AGAIN

I was recently interviewed by Geoff Grogan about my work on Save It For Later, March, Run, Come Again, and more for his Blockhead Podcast— listen here!

I reviewed Jason Reynolds' new book at the Washington Post!

It was both an honor and a welcome challenge to review Ain’t Burned All The Bright, written by Jason Reynolds and illustrated by Jason Griffin, for the Washington Post! Check out the review here, and then definitely get a copy of their ambitious and moving book.

(I think this may also be my first professional writing with zero drawing involved!)

SAVE IT FOR LATER & RUN on 3 more best-of-2021 lists!

Here are a few more best-of-2021 lists featuring Save It For Later and Run:

CBR’s Top 100 Comics of 2021— Save It For Later at #52, with Run likely ranking in the next posted installment.

Multiversity’s Best Original Graphic Novels of 2021— Save It For Later at #8, Run at #9.

Geekcast Radio’s Top 100 Comics of 2021— Run at #2, Save It For Later at #40.

Thanks again for the support, and thanks for reading!

RUN & SAVE IT FOR LATER in two new Best-of-2021 lists!

I’m honored to find that both Run and Save It For Later got props in two new “Best Graphic Novels of 2021” Lists: Publishers Weekly Critics’ Poll (Run in 2nd place, SIFL as honorable mention) and Forbes (Run in final list, SIFL got “Most Hustle” ribbon and a Wendy’s gift certificate). Thanks fo...

RUN named a "best of 2021" book by NYT & WaPo!

It’s an honor to find that Run has been selected by the New York Times as one of the 5 Best Young Adult Books of 2021, and by the Washington Post as one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2021! Congressman Lewis would be heartened and proud to find his work and personal account of history to resonat...