Comic life biography of obama
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ByChace Thibodeauxon
The book is a collection of 3 comic books that IDW Publishing released from Oct. 2008 to July 2009. Written by Jeff Mariotte and drawn by Tom Morgan, with covers by superstar artist J. Scott Campbell, these books covered Barack Obama’s life from his childhood through to his first 100 days in office. I bought the individual comics as they were published, but they’re all out of print now, with only this collection still available for purchase (in Kindle format).
The books are all essentially short prose biographies but with comic book panels illustrating the events that are being recounted in third-person caption, with occasionally word balloons used to recite important dialog or speeches.
The first book was called Presidential Material: Barack Obama. Released a month before the election in 2008, this book chronicles the then-candidate’s life from childhood up to his speech at the 2008 Democratic
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Barack Hussein Obama
Politicians such as Newt Gingrich, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama are forced to live in the world they made in this satiric graphic novel.
What does it mean to live in America today? If you know there's no right answer to that question, you'll want to read Barack Hussein Obama — a book about you; about your country, your family, your president. Barack Hussein Obama is not a graphic novel. It's neither a biography nor an experiment, but a whole, fully realized parallel America, a dada-esque, surrealistic satirical vision that is no more cockeyed than the real thing, its weirdness no more weird, its vision of the world no more terrifying. The zombieesque simulacra of Joe Biden and Hillary and Newt and Obama wander, if not exactly through the corridors of power, through an America they made and have to live in, like it or not. American cartoonist Steven Weissman takes from the lives of the leaders of the free world, his friends, his family, his sworn enemies,