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Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List

American Library Association has compiled a lengthy reading list of graphic novels that draws attention to the Black experiences of the past and present. Supporting the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as well as the Black community at large, they created this list of books to demand a new future for our Black friends and neighbors.

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Civil rights graphic novel selected for 2019 Vermont State-Wide Reading Program

March: Book One, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, has been selected as the first-ever graphic novel for the Vermont Reads program. Nate Powell was the 2016 commencement speaker for The Center for Cartoon Studies.

Congressman John Lewis is one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. In partnership with Andrew Aydin (ao-author) and Nate Powell (illustrator), they created March (Top Shelf Comix), a graphic novel trilogy chronicling John Lewis’ lifetime of commitment to justice and nonviolence. The book centers around the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to end segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins.

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This Year’s Commencement Speaker: Nate Powell

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT: On Friday, May 6, The Center for Cartoon Studies will hold its 10th commencement ceremony. This year’s speaker is New York Times best-selling cartoonist Nate Powell, whose work includes March, a graphic novel autobiography of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; a graphic adaptation of Rick Riordan’s novel The Lost Hero; and graphic novels You Don’t Say, Any Empire, Swallow Me Whole, The Silence Of Our Friends, and The Year of the Beasts.

Powell’s work has received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, four YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens selections, a Best American Comics selection, and has been nominated for a total of eight Eisner Awards and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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