"One of the most profound, ambitious and emotionally hard-hitting graphic novels ever attempted." --Forbes "This phenomenal graphic novel doesn't set out to replace Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but to add immeasurably valuable context that has historically been left out. Jim's story deserves to be told ."-- Bookpage "Walker and Anderson shift their storytelling perspective to emphasize the experiences of characters and communities who were relegated to supporting roles or omitted entirely from Twain's original novel, and often from the historical record as well . a thought-provoking, profoundly moving adventure story. Not to be missed." -- Library Journal , starred review " Big Jim and the White Boy is a brilliant remix of history, politics, satire, and passion filtered through the comics medium by two masters of storytelling. David F.

Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson have done it again with this instant classic!" --John Jennings, Hugo Award-winning comics creator " Big Jim and the White Boy is a stunning inversion of any reader's expectations: a breathtaking adventure that disassembles a literary classic, a well-researched reckoning with the legacies of enslavement and liberation, and a genuinely heart-swelling exploration of love, time, and memory. David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson playfully smash genre limitations to highlight both the closeness of history's shadow and fiction's role in illuminating it." --Nate Powell, award-winning cartoonist of the March trilogy and Save It for Later " Big Jim and The White Boy is a riveting story that really turns the original Huck Finn story on its head. To see this tale through Jim's eyes is thought-provoking and impactful. Definitely a must-read!" --Regine Sawyer, comic book writer and coordinator and founder of WinC International "What these brothers have created is fire! David F. Walker has given Jim a voice beyond the superstitious, passive slave and Marcus Kwame Anderson has made him real and not a cultural cliche. This book, beautifully illustrated and superbly written, expands an American classic by adding rich and important cultural nuances.

" --Joel Christian Gill, author of Fights and chair of the MFA in Visual Narrative at Boston University "David F. Walker is one of the most imaginative and bold storytellers out there, and Marcus Kwame Anderson's beautiful art is the perfect complement for the retelling of this most important American story." --Erika Alexander, cocreator and writer of Concrete Park " Big Jim and the White Boy is simultaneously a page turner and a thoughtful exploration. Its twists and turns are worthy of a classic mystery novel, while its deep engagement with the role of storytelling in preserving and transmitting lost histories challenges readers' assumptions about the nature of ancestry and memory." --Ajuan Mance, author of Gender Studies and Living While Black.