Another reminder that the other book that I illustrated last year (written by @ronaldwimberly) is also currently in stores and available to buy! It’s called Now Let Me Fly, and it’s about the first black fighter pilot in WWI. But really, it encompasses so much than that. It’s a true-life adventure that flies you around the the world, from the boxing rings of Paris to the trenches of World War I. It’s being published by @01firstsecond so I’ll let them tell you more. - NOW LET ME FLY From author Ronald Wimberly, creator of the viral comic Lighten Up, comes a soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from the muddy trenches to the open skies. In 1914, Bullard joined the fight to defend France—and made history as the world’s first African American fighter pilot. In this candid but sensitive portrait of Bullard, author Ronald Wimberly balances the personal and the historical to interrogate concepts of cynicism, idealism, fear, glory, and the pervasiveness of anti-Black racism. - Unfortunately it’s not coming out until January 3, 2023. For more information, and to pre-order, check out the ‘Now Let Me Fly’ link in my bio. - #ronwimberly #eugenebullard #wwi #ww1 #biplane #boxing #blackhistory #graphicnovel #warcomics #firstsecond #illustrationsketch #sketchbook #characters #charactersketch #comics #comicartist #comicartwork #comicartists #comicartistsoninstagram #digitalsketch #photoshop #cintiq https://www.instagram.com/p/ConO1bMqI5Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
