by G. Neri, Randy DuBurke
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...
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