"Good trouble" - remembering John Lewis
Tim Woodcock writes: With the recent death of Rep. John Lewis, my mind keeps on coming back to graphic novel series March that tells Lewis’s life story and unpacks his philosophy of agitating for civil rights and causing what he called “good trouble.” It is now on my nightstand, waiting to be reread. The March series, published between 2013 and 2016, was written as a collaboration between three people and i s dedicated “to the past and future children of the [civil rights] movement.” Interviews with Lewis were shaped into a complex narrative by Andrew Aydin (a staffer who worked with Lewis in Washington, D.C.) and Aydin’s script was turned into a graphic novel by Nate Powell. Reduced to a simple timeline, March follows Lewis from his childhood in rural Alabama via the civil rights protests in the 1960s to his ascendance to Congress in the 1980s and his presence at Barack Obama’s inauguration as president in 2008. But the story blurs time in some interesting ways. For instanc...