Last On His Feet - Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century

On the morning of 4 July 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world's first Black heavyweight champion-and most infamous athlete in the world because of his race-was paired against Jim Jeffries, a former heavyweight champion then heralded as the "great white hope." It was the height of the Jim Crow era, and spectators were eager for Jeffries to restore the racial hierarchy that Johnson had pummelled with his quick fists.

Transporting readers directly into the ring, artist Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka intersperse dramatic boxing action with vivid flashbacks to reveal how Johnson, the self-educated son of formerly enslaved parents, reached the pinnacle of sport-all while facing down a racist justice system. Through a combination of breathtaking illustrations and striking verse, Last on His Feet honours a contentious civil rights figure who has for more than a century been denied his proper due.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Youssef Daoudi, a comic artist, writer and illustrator, is the author of Monk!. Previously, he was an art director for multinational advertising firms.Adrian Matejka is the author of?six poetry collections and the graphic novel Last on His Feet. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, served as the poet laureate of the state of Indiana from 2018–2019, and is editor–in–chief of Poetry magazine. He lives in Chicago.

Zusammenfassung

A groundbreaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last on His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Youssef Daoudi, Adrian Matejka, Adrian (Indiana University) Matejka
• Mitarbeit: Youssef Daoudi (Illustration)
• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.03.2023
• EAN: 9781631495588
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-558-8
• Abmessung: 185 mm x 246 mm x 28 mm
• Gewicht: 845 g
• Themen: Belletristik > Comic, Cartoon, Humor, Satire; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Ratgeber > Sport > Kampfsport, Selbstverteidigung; History, HISTORY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Boxing, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, Biography: sport, Boxing, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / History, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions