{"product_id":"the-be-bop-barbarians-a-graphic-novel-9781681777764","title":"The Be-Bop Barbarians: A Graphic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gary Phillips\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pegasus Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pegasus Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical Fiction - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the turbulent era of late 1950s Manhattan--with jazz, the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, and the Red Scare as the volatile ingredients--three groundbreaking black cartoonists defy convention and pay the price.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCliff Murphy is matinee handsome, a light-skinned, straight-haired black man and a comics artist known for his glamour girl art. He's black uptown and white downtown, and he has an eye for the ladies, and they for him--including his boss' wife, who knows Cliff's creation, the Phantom Avenger, is about to be stolen from him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough Stephaney \"Stef\" Rawls has her own romance-adventure strip for the largest black newspaper, she still has to work brutal hours as a maid to make ends meet. When she gets a lucrative offer to write and draw a \"Negroes must reject agitation\" flyer for the FBI, can she pass up the opportunity? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen there's Oliver \"Ollie\" Jefferson, a decorated Korean War vet who writes and draws editorial cartoons under the pseudonym Attucks, for the daily Red newspaper \u003ci\u003eThe Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e. But when a cop beats him down while walking his pregnant Korean wife-to-be home one night, Ollie becomes a symbol of oppression and the streets threaten to explode. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese three friends will be tested and tried, will work in solidarity, and, just maybe, betray each other, in this explosive graphic novel--with prose by crime fiction author Gary Phillips and images by acclaimed artist-writer Dale Berry.","brand":"Pegasus Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45355881300119,"sku":"9781681777764","price":1503.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781681777764.webp?v=1769291745","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-be-bop-barbarians-a-graphic-novel-9781681777764","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}