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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Paperback – Illustrated, July 24, 2018

by Damian Duffy (Adapter), Octavia E. Butler (Author), John Jennings (Illustrator),

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The graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece Kindred is a #1 New York Times bestseller and the winner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium.

Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century.

Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a Southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana’s own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.

Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, as well as a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, the intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed in the book still remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere.

Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.

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"Adapting any prose novel to the graphic format is an audacious undertaking at the best of times, but translating Octavia E. Butler’s fearsomely powerful work in particular must surely have been a herculean task. Yet Damian Duffy and John Jennings have managed it…A worthy and powerful supplement to a classic.” ―The New York Times

“Awash in burnished ambers and potent violets, this illustrated adaptation of Butler’s 1979 time-traveling classic about a black woman from ’70s California suddenly transplanted to the 19th-century South amplifies the original’s visceral grace.”―O, The Oprah Magazine

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Octavia Estelle Butler (1947–2006), often referred to as the “grand dame of science fiction,” was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena City College and also attended California State University in Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. Butler was the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Fellowship (“genius” grant). She won the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nebula and Hugo Awards, among others.

John Jennings is the curator of the Megascope list and illustrator of the graphic novel adaptations of Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower. He is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside, and was awarded the Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. He also co-edited the Eisner Award–winning anthology The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art.

Damian Duffy, cartoonist, writer, and comics letterer, is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and a founder of Eye Trauma Studios (eyetrauma.net). His first published graphic novel, The Hole: Consumer Culture, created with artist John Jennings, was released by Front 40 Press in 2008. Along with Jennings, Duffy has curated several comics art shows, including Other Heroes: African American Comic Book Creators, Characters and Archetypes and Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics, and published the art book Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art and Culture. He has also published scholarly essays in comics form on curation, new media, diversity, and critical pedagogy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams ComicArts; Reprint edition (July 24, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419728555
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419728556
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 8 and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.63 x 9.5 inches

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JOHN JENNINGS is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR). Professor Jennings received his MA in Art Education in 1995 and the MFA in Studio with a focus on Graphic Design in 1997 from UIUC. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. Jennings is also a curator, graphic novelist, editor, and design theorist whose research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal's Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University. Jennings' current projects include the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred (with Damian Duffy), Tony Medina's police brutality themed ghost story I Am Alphonso Jones (with Stacey Robinson), and his Hoodoo Noir graphic novella Blue Hand Mojo (Rosarium Publishing). Jennings is also a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University.
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Damian Duffy is a cartoonist, scholar, writer, curator, lecturer, teacher, and Glyph Comics Award-winning graphic novelist. He holds a MS and PhD in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His many publications include academic essays (in comics form) on new media & learning and art books about underrepresentation in comics culture.
On his off hours he teaches classes on cultural politics of computers and/or wrestles his children.
A co-founder of Eye Trauma Studios, Damian has given talks and lead workshops about comics, art, and education internationally.
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Such a moving story. The tale of Dana and Rufus and Kevin was so intriguing. Octavia Butler was a genius for this.

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At last a graphic novel adaptation of Butler's masterpiece. A tremendous story deftly adapted and illustrated.

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Octavia Butler's Kindred is one of a handful of "must-read" books. The story - of a young woman in 1976 California who is inexplicably transported back in time to 19th century Maryland to (repeatedly) save the life of her distant ancestor - is a powerful commentary on race, how the institution of slavery has impacted America in the present, and asks readers to consider hard, uncomfortable questions about who we as a nation are, who we want to be, and how should we remember and consider the past. I am overjoyed that this work is finally a graphic novel.

As with any story that is translated into another medium, there are gems and important plot points that are lost. Among those in _Kindred_ is the inter-racial nature of the protagonist's marriage, and many of the details of how each experiences the 19th century given their race. Sometimes these omissions and editorial decisions get in the way of the story or its impact. In the case of the graphic novel adaptation, there is still plenty of gut-wrenching material and thought-provoking issues raised that the spirit of the story remains true to what Butler wrote.

Jenning's artwork cleverly brings Duffy's adaptation to life - the variations of color and shading as well as the illustrations of the characters themselves don't distract from the story, and in many respects add to it (particularly in "The Fight" and the Epilogue). For readers unfamiliar with Butler's work, I cannot recommend _Kindred_ highly enough. For fans of graphic novels (or those who prefer this medium to the source text), the themes, message and plot remain close to the book, with little interference (and some graphic assistance), making this a recommended read.

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If you've read the novel or not, this visual graphic novel is an excellent read. I'm amazed at how they were able to capture elements of the book so well to not lose any of the plot.

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a great adaptation

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2023

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Having read Kindred, the novel, I was interested in reading this adaptation of Kindred, the graphic novel. The story was well done and the illustrations were powerful. Octavia E Butler held nothing back, showing the darkest side of America’s history while also showing har far we’ve come since.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023

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El libro usado en excelente condiciones. Lo recibí más rápido de lo que pensé.

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Dark fantasy with a vital purpose

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2019

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I’ve been meaning to read Octavia Butler’s Kindred for years, so when I saw that it had just been adapted as a graphic novel I jumped at the opportunity to finally read it while continuing to feed my insatiable appetite for comics. Mind you, I’m not trying to claim that reading this version should serve as a substitute for reading the novel itself. However I do think that illustrating Butler’s story makes it all the more gut-wrenching. Kindred is the tale of a modern African-American woman’s repeated experience of being suddenly transported from her home in 1970s California back to the antebellum South. It’s a very powerful story of courageous survival, both that of Dana, a modern woman forced to adapt to life as a black person in the era of American slavery, as well as the people of the period, whose lives become intimately intertwined with Dana’s. By following Dana through her repeated and increasingly long and dangerous visits to an antebellum plantation in Maryland we form an emotional connection with her that serves to help modern day humans better comprehend the myriad horrors of slavery as well as the strength of those who endured and overcame it. It’s dark fantasy with a vital purpose and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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Great Read!

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2023

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What a wonderful way to bring the book to life! Great images! Well done on this book.

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Butler is Obsessed with Torture

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The art in the graphic novel is good for the most part (though they did insist on depicting every nude woman with impossibly perfect spherical breasts). That's the only reason it has three stars and not one. I've been forced into studying Butler for a college lit course and, while I found most of her work an exercise in exploring the depths of pure human misery, this really takes the cake. Dana is a modern black woman forced through some quirk of time travel to constantly go back into the past and relive the pre-Civil War days. She's put through horrific abuses as a black woman in the slavery-era South and for no real reason. She is forced to endure these terrible abuses and that's just the plot. That's it. The book isn't teaching us anything we don't already know. Slavery was bad, slave owners were bad people, the slavery-era south was a bad place for black people. This is stuff we're all taught in elementary school and the book has no other message than that. It has no commentary about the triumph of the human spirit or a lesson to teach about a dark period in history. Butler just really liked inflicting pointless misery on her characters, all of whom, coincidentally or not, bear a striking resemblance in appearance and personality to Butler herself. Reading her work just feels like reading the literary version of someone else's oppressive intrusive thoughts of self hatred and self doubt. If you don't have to read this, skip it and read something, anything, else.

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Ottimo libro

Reviewed in Italy on March 31, 2022

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Libro ben fatto, dall'aspetto magnifico. Arrivato nei tempi prestabiliti in ottime condizioni!

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Very good graphic novel

Reviewed in Canada on March 29, 2020

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This graphic novel is a good entry point into slavery in the southern United States. Kids 13 and up would benefit from reading it, most especially ones that struggle with reading.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2017

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A brilliant, beautiful adaptation of a great novel--highly recommended!

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great read

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wonderful novel about many great topics, great read and amazing illustrations

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WOW- This book is great

Reviewed in Canada on September 13, 2018

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The themes in this book and they transport the reader back and forth from the time of slavery to the 1970s and the issues of the day are brilliant. Great great novel for a class read in 9th -12th grade.

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