The talk: Darrin Bell by Amazonundefined

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Darrin Bell was six years old when he had The Talk: his mother told him he couldn't have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are. Through evocative illustrations and sharp humour, Bell examines how The Talk shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood. While coming of age in Los Angeles - and finding a voice through cartooning - Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarde
Recenzja
Darrin Bell has produced another American classic... An expressive and direct work
about racisms impact, and the problems we have discussing it
Guardian, *Best Graphic Novels of the Year*
It's nearly impossible to appreciate another person's truth, but if a brilliant storyteller offers to light the way, take him up on it.
Bell is the Ta-Nehisi Coates of comics, an indispensable explainer of how it feels to grow up in a world that repeatedly treats you as other
. The talk with my white sons boiled down to 'Be kind.' It's hard to overstate the distance between that admonition and 'Stay alive' -- Garry Trudeau, creator of DoonesburyVisually stunning, and propulsive, with an absorbing narrative voice... Reminiscent of longform comics memoirs such as Alison Bechdel's
Fun Home
and Marjane Satrapi's
Persepolis...
This epic portrait of an artist is
a masterpiece...
The Talk
makes a penetrative, and lasting, impression
NPR
Propulsive reading, drawn with urgency and verve. Once you pick up
The Talk
,
you won't be able to put it down
-- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun HomeA moving portrait... funny and touching, intellectually and emotionally stimulating. There's pride and prejudice, family drama, and a love story.
I loved this book. You will too
-- Victor LaValle, author of The ChangelingA Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist draws on his childhood in Los Angeles to explore racism on
a deeply personal level. Theres a poignancy, too, in the cyclical nature of the story
: Bell, now a father, is wrestling with the same questions his own parents face
New York Times
A deeply personal, brutally honest, and achingly funny graphic novel...
The Talk
is a strikingly illustrated vision
-- Lalo Alcaraz, creator of La CucarachaDarrin Bell's first foray into graphic novels is
a triumph.
A cinematically comic, coming-of-age blend of race, culture, and gratuitous nerdity. Wonderful -- Keith Knight, creator of The K Chronicles and Woke
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Darrin Bell was six years old when he had The Talk: his mother told him he couldn't have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are. Through evocative illustrations and sharp humour, Bell examines how The Talk shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood. While coming of age in Los Angeles - and finding a voice through cartooning - Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarde
O autorze
Darrin Bell
, a recipient of the Berryman Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning, began his career at the age of twenty. In 2019 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, becoming the first African American to do so. Rudy Park (co-created with Matt Richtel) and Bell's Candorville, both syndicated comic strips, have run for more than twenty years. A contributing cartoonist for the
New Yorker
, he lives with his wife and four children in California.
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