New Graphic History: The First Black Marines

The First Black Marines: An Oral History is a graphic history written by Trevor R. Getz, Robert Willis, and Joseph H. Geeter III. The book is based on interviews with some of the first Black Marines, in which they shared their experiences of joining the Marines and training at Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, and of serving in World War II and beyond.

The First Black Marines is the latest title published in the Oxford University Press Graphic History Series. Find out more about it at the publisher's website, or visit the book's own website at https://www.firstblackmarines.org/ where you can also watch the interviews with the veterans whose stories became the graphic history.

Freedom Was In Sight!

 Kate Masur's Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region is out now. Find out more about it and check out a preview of the book at The University of North Carolina Press website.

New Graphic History

Freedom Was In Sight! A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region, written by Kate Masur and published by the University of North Carolina Press, is available for pre-order now. Its release date is October 2024.

If you order it from the UNC Press site, you can use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!

All Rise article

 New Frame has a wonderful article about Richard Conyngham's All Rise: https://www.newframe.com/drawing-everyday-heroes-out-of-the-archive/

New Graphic History: All Rise

All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa 1910-1948 is an exciting new graphic history book that tells six diverse stories of working-class resistance from South Africa's past. It was written by Richard Conyngham, with each story illustrated by a different South African artist. I'm very proud to be one of those artists--I illustrated the chapter titled 'Come Gallows Grim', as well as the cover. All Rise is available for pre-order now.

In South Africa, the book is published by Jacana Media. You can read more about it and pre-order it from Loot

In the USA, the book is published by Catalyst Press, and available to pre-order from:

Bookshop 

Indiebound 

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

 

New Graphic History

The next book I've illustrated for the Oxford University Press Graphic History Series has just been published. Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, written by Charles F. Walker, tells the story of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru, the half-brother of the leader of the Tupac Amaru Rebellion that took place in 18th-century Peru. Based on Juan Bautista's memoir, the graphic history follows his experience of decades as a prisoner of Spain on three continents during the Age of Revolution.

Find out more from Oxford University Press or Amazon.

 

 Published: 1 September 2020

192 pages

ISBN: 9780190941154

A Foreign Shore 3: The Company of Women book trailer

The third book in Forrest Johnson's fantasy series A Foreign Shore has a wonderful animated trailer.