Not too long after finishing Americanah, I chanced upon this graphic novel when perusing my local digital library. Conceptually, I love the idea of a graphic biography and (this is where the Americanah thing becomes relevant) was particularly interested to see how one might take on a racially-charge...
An exciting graphic presentation of the Old West legend.
I particularly liked how the art was done in a b & w newspaper photograph style. And was left wondering: is breaking a horse as simple as holding on long enough? horse people, please inform me.
I particularly liked how the art was done in a b & w newspaper photograph style. And was left wondering: is breaking a horse as simple as holding on long enough? horse people, please inform me.
Yummy is true dystopia. It is the tragedy of an eleven-year-old kid caught up in the height of gang violence in 1994 in Chicago. The black-and-white art is mostly very effective, although it lead to some odd effects that occasionally stopped me cold. Neri tells the story through a peer of Yummy's, w...
A powerful graphic novel that tells the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, a 11 year member of a Chicago gang whose death in 1994 made the cover of Time magazine. A schoolmate tries to make sense of Yummy's brief life and violent death.
A story I've heard and seen before, but it didn't stop this stark b&w graphic novel from making a power impact on me. I cried at the end, because so many things have not changed.
Wow! An eleven-year-old boy with a sweet tooth and a teddy bear is a career criminal who joins the Black Disciples gang in Chicago and murders a fourteen-year-old girl. This dramatization of real life events packs a powerful punch and poses provocative questions. Was Yummy a cold-blooded killer or a...
Interesting concept, nice execution - although I don't love the illustration style and I would have preferred the map at the start of the book vs. the end.
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