Yes, you’ll find some superheroes and kids’ comics within these pages, but you’ll also find ordinary people striving for the extraordinary.
If you think comics and graphic novels are the domain of superheroes and stuff” and for kids,” then brace yourself for an epiphany. Working with a striking palette of ruby reds, rich browns, bleached-out blues and deep piney greens, author/artist Joel Christian Gill conjures up forgotten firsts and impassioned everymen in a cartoon style that's at once cheeky and epic, naive and majestic. Strange Fruit is black history as you've never seen it before. Gill shares these nine stories simply and with deep thoughtfulness and reverence to voices that- the reader will quickly be convinced- need to be heard. Strange Fruit is an evocative and richly illustrated tour through the shadowed corners of Black History.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University But, instead of flying around in capes or spinning webs, the superheroes in Strange Fruit are extraordinary-ordinary black folks making 'a way out of no way.' The difference: they really lived. Josh Neufeld, writer/illustrator of A.D.: New Orleans After the Delugeīy the time I finished reading Strange Fruit, I thought, let the comic-book sellers have their mythic superheroes through Joel Gill, we can have our own. After reading about such real American heroes as chess master Theophilus Thompson, bicycling champion Marshall Major” Taylor, and lawman Bass Reeves, I’m eager to learn more! Without whitewashing the realities of slavery and racism, Strange Fruit has a wry, welcoming tone much aided by Gill’s dynamic, inventive storytelling. These offbeat stories of heretofore-obscure African-American pioneers are filled with heartbreak and triumph. Gill offers direction for the road ahead from the road behind. At a moment when racial inequities have ignited this nation, Mr.
Still more thoughtful reflections come from Joel Christian Gill’s graphic novel Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, which unpacks its power through drawings and pointed text that chronicle the trials and triumphs of black Americans who struggled against prejudice more than a century ago.
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