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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

African-American Classics is coming! First reviews are in... order now!


  • From their website, Library Journal highly recommends AAC.


  • And this one's from comics historian Paul Gravett, from his site.


  • Thanks for reading, folks! Here's a recent piece about my contribution to last year's Graphic Novel adaptation of Studs Terkel's Working, from the Stanford Graphic Nonfiction site.


  • And here's another.


  • The story of waitress Dolores Dante was one of my favorite pieces to work on... in fact, I had to fight to get her... my editor thought all the women's interviews should be interpreted by women. (Didn't bother me at all that the lone adapted Black interview was interpreted by a White cartoonist.) Thankfully, I was trusted to do Dolores justice... and I hope I did. More on the other interviews at this link to the Stanford site.

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    Lance Tooks has been drawing all his life. A former assistant editor at Marvel Comics, his artwork has since appeared in more than 100 television commercials, films and music videos. He has self-published the comic books "Danger Funnies" (co-published with Cry For Dawn), Divided by Infinity and Muthafucka. He also illustrated The Black Panthers for Beginners, written by Herb Boyd. He has contributed to a Hurricane Katrina benefit comic, as well as to the Graphic Classics line of books, adapting the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce. He recently completed "Narcissa", his first graphic novel for Random House/Doubleday (recently translated for publication in Spain) and a four volume series entitled "Lucifer's Garden of Verses" for NBM. He has also contributed to the Graphic Novel anthologies, The Beats (Hill and Wang) in collaboration with author Harvey Pekar, Studs Terkel’s Working (the New Press) and The Graphic Canon (7 Stories). Lance Tooks lives in New York and Madrid. He merely exists everywhere else.

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