Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents)

Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents)

Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own history . . . and then re-writing it. A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro League's hardest thrower, most entertaining storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist's eye to Paige's story. Told from the point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South. In stark prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American. PRAISE FOR HOUDINI: THE HANDCUFF KING * "Bertozzi's illustrations are simply spectacular."-- Kirkus Reviews , starred review PRAISE FOR THOREAU AT WALDEN * "Porcellino creates a poetic alternation of words and silences that effectively draws the reader into Thoreau's point of view."-- Kirkus Reviews , starred review PRAISE FOR THOREAU AT WALDEN -- 2009 ALA Best Book for Young Adults * "[T]his graphic novel . . . imparts as clear a picture of the aggressive style of black baseball as it does of the realities of life in the rural Deep South in Paige's barnstorming heyday."-- Kirkus Reviews , starred review * "This visually powerful, suspenseful, even profound story makes an excellent choice for readers interested in baseball or in the history of race relations."-- Booklist , starred review James Sturm is a cartoonist and the cofounder of The Center for Cartoon Studies. His graphic novels include The Golem's Mighty Swing, Market Day , and Off Season . His picture books for children include Ape and Armadillo Take Over The World, Birdsong , and the Adventures in Cartooning series (with Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost). Rich Tommaso started writing and drawing original comics and graphic novels in 1993. He is mostly known for his series of crime novels, the first of which was Clover Honey . Since then, he has penned a few more crime books, including Sam Hill: The Cavalier Mr. Thompson, Dark Corridor , and Dry County . At the moment he is drawing a new, but classically-styled, Dick Tracy comic series with Mike, Lee, and Laura Allred. Aside from his crime work he's made a dozen other comics and graphic novels in various genres, including Spy Seal, She Wolf, Vikings' End, Don't Look Back, 8 1/2 Ghosts, Perverso!, The Horror of Collier County , and a humorous travel book called Let's Hit the Road . He lives in Atlanta, GA with his girlfriend, Amy, and their two cats.