John Lewis, R.I.P.

Few things can spoil a day more than waking up to hear that John Lewis passed away. Far from the top of any list of his accomplishments over 80 years was the comic book work that he did in the last decade of his life, the autobiographical MARCH, published in three volumes from 2013 to 2016 with collaborators Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell  I wrote a bit about the first one back here, and will just add that the later ones are even better, it might be the best comic of the past decade. His earlier prose memoir WALKING WITH THE WIND is also highly recommended.

(a free sampler with excerpts from all three volumes of MARCH is available here, along the full volumes available half-price right now, and you can probably read them here if your local library offers digital books through Hoopla or here if they offer them through OverDrive)

And of course it's literally impossible to say any words about him better than his own, here's a bit from the aforementioned MARCH, of Lewis's speech of August 28, 1963 in Washington. A 23-year-old man gave that speech almost 57 years ago, and it's still relevant today.