Ah comic con...starts tomorrow

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18. I knew who, but not why, so I looked it up...

Rep. John Lewis To Visit BEA, San Diego Comic-Con To Promote ‘March’

By Calvin Reid | Feb 04, 2013

Announced last summer for publication in August 2013 by Top Shelf Productions, March is a three volume graphic autobiography of longtime Congressman and legendary Civil Rights veteran John Lewis, that will be co-produced by Andrew Aydin, Lewis’ co-writer, and award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell. In a phone call from his Congressional office in Washington, D.C., Lewis discussed his interest in comics, his desire to reach a new generation of young people with his story and plans to visit the San Diego Comic-Con to promote the work of nonfiction comics.

Lewis and his new graphic autobiography March will be featured at a Book and Author Breakfast at this year’s BookExpo America and Lewis will appear at the American Library Association convention and the San Diego Comic-Con this summer. Considered a key member of the Civil Rights leadership of the 1960s along with such historic figures as Martin Luther King, Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins, John Lewis is a Civil Rights legend. Lewis was a key organizer and leader during the Civil Rights Movement and as at the core of many of the most famous, important and often deadly violent protest marches, fighting to register black voters in the face of violent and hostile racist mobs, mobs supported and unrestrained by the local police.

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