Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies

ISBN 10: 1629635715 / ISBN 13: 9781629635712

Published by PM Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies

Publisher: PM Press

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Soft cover

Illustrator: Tobocman, Seth; McGill, Mac; Riddle, Songe

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms in the forests. They didn’t just escape and steal from plantations—they also planted and harvested polycultures. They not only fought slavery but proved its opposite, and for generations they defended it with blood and brilliance.

Maroon Comix is a fire on the mountain where maroon words and images meet to tell stories together. Stories of escape and homecoming, exile and belonging. Stories that converge on the summits of the human spirit, where the most dreadful degradation is overcome by the most daring dignity. Stories of the damned who consecrate their own salvation.

With selections and citations from the writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz, Herbert Aptheker, C.L.R. James, and many more, accompanied by comics and illustrations from Songe Riddle, Mac McGill, Seth Tobocman, and others, Maroon Comix is an invitation to never go back, to join hands and hearts across space and time with the maroons and the mountains that await their return.

About the Authors:

Quincy Saul is the author of Truth and Dare: A Comic Book Curriculum for the End and the Beginning of the World, and the coeditor of Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz. He is a musician and a cofounder of Ecosocialist Horizons.

Seth Tobocman is the cofounder of World War 3 Illustrated. He is the author and illustrator of several graphic books, including You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive and Understanding the Crash. He has participated in exhibitions at ABC No Rio, Exit Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. His illustrations have appeared in the New York Times among many other publications.

Mac McGill is one of the leading pen and ink artists of NYC. His drawings are known internationally for their formal density and their affective impact. His previous art books include IX XI MI.

Songe Riddle has worked on a number of award-winning film and television productions providing motion graphics and animation as well as script illustrations and storyboards. His illustrations can be found in magazines as well as on book and record covers.