PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"G. Neri is the Eisner-nominated, Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty, which CNN and Flavorwire hailed as one of the top 25 essential graphic novels of all-time. He has written thirteen books for young people, including Ghetto Cowboy, which was made into the movie Concrete Cowboy, starring Idris Elba, debuting at #1 on Netflix. His books have been translated into multiple languages in more than 25 countries. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from SUNY for his literary output. Mr. Neri lives on the Gulf coast of Florida. For more information, visit gneri.com. David Brame is the Eisner-nominated comic artist of After the Rain, whose art for the graphic novel was hailed as ""bold and arresting"" by Publishers Weekly. He was also a contributor to the graphic novel anthology Young Men In Love: A Queer Romance Anthology, which earned the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel or Anthology and the American Library Association's award for Great Graphic Novel for Teens. David lives in Alaska with his three dogs. For more information, visit his Instagram @amazingdavidbrame."
"""Safe Passage is brutal, beautiful, and mercilessly necessary. It's a love letter to the City with Big Shoulders and a reminder that once it had to rise from its ashes. Neri and Brame do a delicate dance of text and image that expose the dangers of the street mixed with the hope and innocence that Black children have to fight to protect. It's an amazing achievement and is a prime example of what the comics medium can do when true masters are at the height of their craft."" -- John Jennings, award-winning comics creator and scholar ""This book is incredible, from one page to the next, I couldn't put it down."" -- Raúl the Third, creator of the World of ¡Vamos! ""These two ingenious creatives get us deep into the human heart and human mind of young people. What is depicted are not just throwaway statistics and future fleeting hashtags, but flesh and blood Black children full of pain, longing, desperate dreams, intelligence, and good humor"" -- Tony Medina, author of I Am Alfonso Jones ""Neri and Brame have crafted a masterpiece where every twist is unpredictable, uneasy, and unrelenting. Your heart should not beat this fast reading a graphic novel, but in this adventurous, all-too-real tale of tension, it will!"" -- Stacey Robinson, illustrator of I Am Alfonso Jones and Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre"
