ONI PRESS TO PUBLISH JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL'S FIGHTS: ONE BOY'S TRIUMPH OVER VIOLENCE NEXT MONTH

”˜Fights: One Boy“s Triumph Over Violence“ Is a Moving Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Documenting the Creator“s Life As a Young Black Man

Oni Press is proud to announce the publication of the next book by Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black HistoryÂ creator Joel Christian Gill, detailing his upbringing and relationship to the violence that surrounded it.

Fights: One Boy“s Triumph Over ViolenceÂ is Joel Christian Gill“s visceral and deeply affecting memoir chronicling his youth and coming of age as a poor Black child in a chaotic southern landscape of roughÂ city streets and foreboding backwoods during the crack cocaine boom of the 1980s.

“Oni is incredibly proudÂ to includeÂ Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over ViolenceÂ as a lead title in our 2020 slate”“ says senior editor Shawna Gore. “Joel tells his story with astonishingÂ nuance and clarity–the story of the troubled and conflicted boy he once was, told by the brave and compassionate man he became.Â Fights is an important and imposing book, both in size and what it aspires to reach in its readers.”“

Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and everyone around him. But fighting doesn’t always yield the best results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more fulfilling life than the one he was born into.

This must-read memoir arrives in finer bookstores and comic shopsÂ in January 2020, and deserves a place on the bookshelves of every parent.

Joel Christian GillÂ is an award-winning graphic novelist and Associate Professor of Illustrationp at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. An educator, historian, cartoonist, advocate, and activist, he has Â written a number of graphic novel series including Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History, volumes 1 and 2 (Fulcrum, 2014, 2018), Tales from the Talented Tenth, volumes 1 and 2 (Fulcrum, 2015, 2016), and Fast Enough, Bessie Stringfield“s First Ride (Lion Forge, 2019).

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