"a tour de force of comics" -Ed Park, The New York Times
One of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2020, as chosen by the American Library Association
One of the Best Books of 2020, as chosen by Publishers Weekly
"Fortunately for readers of this raw and intimate graphic memoir, Terry never fully lets go of his youthful vulnerability. . . . Reckoning with sobriety requires connection and humility, as Terry makes the case for with sincerity and beauty, as he ties his recovery to his spiritual homecoming." -Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood.
In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he tries in vain to fit in and eventually turns to alcohol to provide an escape from increasing loneliness and alienation. Terry also shares with the reader in exquisite detail the process by which he finds hope and gets sober, as well as the powerful experience of finding something to believe in and to belong to at the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance at Standing Rock.
Show more"a tour de force of comics" -Ed Park, The New York Times
One of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2020, as chosen by the American Library Association
One of the Best Books of 2020, as chosen by Publishers Weekly
"Fortunately for readers of this raw and intimate graphic memoir, Terry never fully lets go of his youthful vulnerability. . . . Reckoning with sobriety requires connection and humility, as Terry makes the case for with sincerity and beauty, as he ties his recovery to his spiritual homecoming." -Starred Review, Publishers Weekly
A brutally honest but charming look at the pain of childhood and the alienation and anxiety of early adulthood.
In his memoir, we are invited to walk through the life of the author, Jim Terry, as he struggles to find security and comfort in an often hostile environment. Between the Ho-Chunk community of his Native American family in Wisconsin and his schoolmates in the Chicago suburbs, he tries in vain to fit in and eventually turns to alcohol to provide an escape from increasing loneliness and alienation. Terry also shares with the reader in exquisite detail the process by which he finds hope and gets sober, as well as the powerful experience of finding something to believe in and to belong to at the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance at Standing Rock.
Show moreGalleys: • Print Galleys distributed to reviewers. • Digital Galleys available on Edelweiss. National TV and radio campaign: • “Morning Edition,” “Fresh Air,” “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition,” “Dan Savage” “Weekend All Things Considered,” “Here and Now,” “On Point,” WAMC’s “The Book Show,” WNYC “All of It with Allison Stewart”, “The Takeaway with Tanzina Vega”, NPR Books, etc. National print campaign: • Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Bookpage, Library Journal, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, GQ, Esquire, People, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, etc. Online/social media campaign: • The Comics Beat, Grovel, Smash Pages, Novel Novice, Book Crushin, Shelf Abuse, Reddit, It’s All Comics To Me, Book Toss, All Readers, The Awl, Book Page, boingboing, Book Reporter, Bloomberg “The Muse”, CNN, Cool Hunting, Flavorpill, Gawker, Gothamist, Huffington Post, Daily Beast, Vulture (New York Magazine), New York Times, Mashable, Media Bistro, Salon, Slate, Shelf Awareness, PW Newsline, Publishing Perspectives, New Yorker’s “Book Bench”, Swiss Miss, Talk Time Live, Thrillist, WordRiot, Bookviews, msn, aol, yahoo, Washington Post, WSJ’s “Off Duty,” and more. Potential strategic partnerships: • Aids Healthcare Foundation, FLUX, The Trevor Project, GLADD, Trans Equality, Lambda, GLSEN, The Phluid Project and more. General tour info: • Regional Midwest tour: Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. As well as a New York tri-state area tour. Promotion through the author’s Instagram account: • @jim.terry.73 Bookseller/Library promotions: • Blad giveaways at San Diego Comic Con and ALA Annual • Book giveaways to librarians and educators who attend the NY Public Library Programming at NYComicCon, at the Brooklyn Book Festival, and at the Indigenous Comic Con.
Jim Terry was born in Southern California and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. His mother was a Native American from the Ho-Chunk nation of Wisconsin, and his father was an Irish American jazz musician from Chicago. Jim is a prolific comic book artist who has worked on such comics as The Crow: Skinning the Wolves; Sundowners; Alice Cooper vs. Chaos; Vampirella and more. He travels the ComicCon circuit and has self-published several of his own comic books. Jim lives in Chicago with his four cats.
“Terry, known for his outstanding superhero illustrations, turns
the lens inward in this brutally honest memoir. . . . An
exceptionally well-told story with no easy answers but an ending
that will inspire.” —Starred Review, Booklist.
“Illuminated by bursts of both joy and sorrow. With humbling
sensitivity and candor, Jim shares with us his personal journey
down emotionally complex paths towards home.” —TIMOTHY TRUMAN,
author of Marvel Comics’ Conan series
“The kind of personal work that can only be done in the form of
comics, intimately revealing the black and white lines of a
worldview shaped by a life. As raw, honest and human as the
cartoonist who created it.” —TIM SEELEY, author of Hack/Slash,
Revival, and Batman Eternal
“Both uplifting and gut-wrenching, beautiful and terrifying.
Terry’s account of losing himself between worlds, and finding home
in the balance between them, deserves a place among the all-time
great graphic memoirs.” —EZRA CLAYTAN DANIELS, author of Upgrade
Soul, and BTTM FDRS
“Jim’s bravery in putting his most vulnerable moments on paper is
very, very powerful. He’s really knocked it out of the park
artistically. It is visually stunning.” —JILL THOMPSON, author of
the Scary Godmother series, and Wonder Woman: The True Amazon
“An epic memoir. Terry has a way with words — his pithy writing
skillfully mixes nostalgia and melancholy. But it his gorgeous,
inventive, black-and-white artwork that makes this book so
memorable.”— JOSH NEUFELD, author of A.D.: New Orleans After the
Deluge
"Jim Terry lays it bare on the page. The emotional honesty of
Terry’s drawings and his darkly comedic and intimate writing will
break your heart and ignite your spirit." —DEVERY JACOBS, actress
and filmmaker
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