Fights
One Boy's Triumph over Violence
Portland, OR : Oni Press, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 246 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods. Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question everything he has learned about what it truly means to fight for one's life.
Subjects:
Gill, Joel Christian -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
African American cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Violence -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Coming of age -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Gill, Joel Christian -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
African American cartoonists -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Violence -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Coming of age -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Target Audience: "Suggested for mature readers."
ISBN:
9781549303357
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GN Fights Gill | Ballentine Indoors | Graphic Novel | Out (Due: 5/30/2024) |
GN Fights Gill | Blythewood | Graphic Novel | In |
GN Fights Gill | Edgewood | Graphic Novel | Out (Due: 5/25/2024) |
GN Fights Gill | Sandhills Indoors | Graphic Novel | In |