MLK Montgomery Story
The 1956 publication Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is now available online for your perusal, along with the re-drawn Spanish language edition, Martin Luther King y la Historia de Montgomery. [link via BoingBoing]
The comic-book retelling of the stories of Montgomery, AL and the fight for independence in India is not just a biography, but also lays out the steps and the important concepts underlying non-violent protest. Items like this are typically valued today for the camp aspect, but the fact is that comics can be a versatile medium and items like this illustrate that fact. Granted, the writing isn’t up to par for the modern reader, but nobody was really publishing Strangers in Paradise back then, either.
It’s also interesting to note that while the Spanish version of the pamphlet is modeled after the original, it’s actually a complete redrawing. You can see it particularly in the close-up images of characters. Rather than just replacing the English text with Spanish, these pages were completely redrawn.