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lmst340-Assignment Eight "Non-fiction Comics"

March Book One is the story of John Robert Lewis the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district. In this graphic novel, he details his life and how he got where he is today. Starting out with a flashback to a protest that quickly gets escalated do to the police. It then flashes back toward the present (the inauguration of Obama as president) and we see John Lewis in his office, someone comes in to talk to him and he begins recounting his experiences growing up in the south, how he got into preaching, he recounts the how he met Martin Luther King Jr as well as many other things from his youth.

I personally enjoyed the black and white aesthetic this graphic novel has, I think it really emphasizes the seriousness of the content that it speaks about. Some of my favorite panels were the ones that were completely black or completely white accentuating the text inside. There was so much detail through the graphic novel that made it feel much more authentic than it already does.  Something I appreciated where the "Sound Effects" and the way they were presented, sized and placed in a way that made them none intrusive when they had to be, but also used for emphasis when needed. As well as the use of none legible speech bubbles around the ones that were made the graphic novel feel alive, and actually made me really curious to see what the other people were saying.

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