Artist: Art Spiegelman
एप्रिल २०१८ मध्ये
हे वेबपेज पहिले आणि पुन्हा एकदा लक्षात आलेकी माध्यम म्हणून इंग्लिश मध्ये कॉमिकस कुठल्याकुठे गेले आहे .... हे एक पेज नीट वाचण्यात कित्येक दिवस जातील....
त्यावरील एक एन्ट्री विशेष उल्लेखनीय वाटली :
Writers: Alfred Hassler and Benton Resnik; Letterer: John
Duffy
त्याची ओळख कशी करून दिलीय ते पहा :
"The Fellowship of Reconciliation was formed in England in
early 1914 in a failed attempt to prevent the outbreak of World War I. The
following year, they opened up their American branch of the organization and
have been serving the public good ever since. In the 1950s, they were directly
involved with Martin Luther King Jr. in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56.
It was while working with Dr. King that the Fellowship’s director of
publications, Alfred Hassler, came up with a brainstorm. He pitched the idea of
producing a comic book that could serve to spread the message of the boycott.
Essentially, he wanted to create a guidebook for nonviolent protesting.
Hassler worked with Toby Press to produce the comic book.
Legendary cartoonist Al Capp lent a few artists from his studio to draw it. Dr.
King gave his own feedback on the comic book as well. The published work was a
16-page publication called Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. It
opened with a short biography of King’s life, then an “everyman” account of the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, followed by a detailed guide to how to do a nonviolent
protest like the bus boycotts. 375,000 copies were printed — 250,000 in English
and 125,000 in Spanish — and they were distributed through African-American
schools, churches, and civil-rights groups. The protesters who became known as
the Greensboro Four, who helped to desegregate Woolworth’s in North Carolina by
having protest sit-ins, specifically cited The Montgomery Story as the direct
inspiration for their actions. The success of the comic led to countless other
political groups using comic books to express their message to the masses.
Recently, in honor of The Montgomery Story, Representative John Lewis used
comics to tell his autobiography in the award-winning and best-selling graphic
memoir series, March."
स्वतः डॉ॰ मार्टिन लूथर किंग,
जूनियर यांनी कॉमिक्स वाचून फीडबॅक दिला....
