Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, Paperback/James Sturm

Description 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. About the Author 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.