Big Jim and the White Boy

Praise

“One of the most profound, ambitious and emotionally hard-hitting graphic novels ever attempted.”—Forbes

“This phenomenal graphic novel doesn’t set out to replace Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but to add immeasurably valuable context that has historically been left out. Jim’s story deserves to be told . . .”—Bookpage

“Big Jim and the White Boy is terrifically ambitious—for its authors and their audience.”—The Washington Post Book Club

“A thought-provoking, profoundly moving adventure story. Not to be missed.”—Library Journal, starred review

“The book is an action-packed page-turner, with dastardly villains, narrow escapes, and a twist at the end that sheds a new light on the entire story.”—School Library Journal

“The parts original to this work are very approachable for readers who have never read Twain, and the actual history in the story is fascinating. . . . This book has a good story as well as some truths that need to be remembered.”—ICv2

“Big Jim and the White Boy is a marvel of the graphic novel format. Not only does the creative team expertly wrangle four different timelines, but they’ve given the book several narrators who use the power of oral storytelling to share stories through the generations until it reaches us, the reader.”—Women Write About Comics

“Big Jim and the White Boy is a brilliant remix of history, politics, satire, and passion filtered through the comics medium by two masters of storytelling.”—John Jennings, Hugo Award–winning comics creator

“Big Jim and the White Boy is a stunning inversion of any reader’s expectations: a breathtaking adventure that disassembles a literary classic, a well-researched reckoning with the legacies of enslavement and liberation, and a genuinely heart-swelling exploration of love, time, and memory.”—Nate Powell, award-winning cartoonist of the March trilogy and Save It for Later

“Big Jim and The White Boy is a riveting story that really turns the original Huck Finn story on its head. To see this tale through Jim’s eyes is thought-provoking and impactful. Definitely a must-read!”—Regine Sawyer, comic book writer and coordinator and founder of WinC International

“What these brothers have created is fire! David F. Walker has given Jim a voice beyond the superstitious, passive slave and Marcus Kwame Anderson has made him real and not a cultural cliche.”—Joel Christian Gill, author of Fights and chair of the MFA in Visual Narrative at Boston University
 
“David F. Walker is one of the most imaginative and bold storytellers out there, and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s beautiful art is the perfect complement for the retelling of this most important American story.”—Erika Alexander, cocreator and writer of Concrete Park
 
“Big Jim and the White Boy . . . challenges readers’ assumptions about the nature of ancestry and memory.”—Ajuan Mance, author of Gender Studies and Living While Black

“A vital reconsideration of an American classic.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review