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meepelous's review
4.0
And today we are talking about the illustrator nonfiction book, Black Panthers for Beginners by Herb Boyd and Illustrated by Lance Tooks. This is only one in a series of For Beginner books that apparently covers everything from Foucault to the history of clowns.
Flipping over to the back I also got to see that this particular book was purchased through an alternative bookstore near the downtown called A Different Booklist, which focuses on "From the South to the North, from Africa to the Caribbean, from Asia to South America,
We bring you literary gems from Canada's cultural mosaic."
As a beginner in the whole Black Panther political party end of things this book and my lack of knowledge fit well together as promised. While not completely unbiased, considering how ubiquitous negative coverage is, this fairly positive but seemingly open to show the Black Panther leaders as real people (who make mistakes) is a pretty good balance in my opinion. I would have liked more information on the author, but I did appreciate all the book recommendations they did give me - most of them by Black Panthers.
While this was generally a fairly easy book to read, some of the text layouts were extremely overwrought and probably intimidating to none comic book readers. As far as illustrated nonfiction goes otherwise I felt like the images were a helpful memory/interest aid.
Flipping over to the back I also got to see that this particular book was purchased through an alternative bookstore near the downtown called A Different Booklist, which focuses on "From the South to the North, from Africa to the Caribbean, from Asia to South America,
We bring you literary gems from Canada's cultural mosaic."
As a beginner in the whole Black Panther political party end of things this book and my lack of knowledge fit well together as promised. While not completely unbiased, considering how ubiquitous negative coverage is, this fairly positive but seemingly open to show the Black Panther leaders as real people (who make mistakes) is a pretty good balance in my opinion. I would have liked more information on the author, but I did appreciate all the book recommendations they did give me - most of them by Black Panthers.
While this was generally a fairly easy book to read, some of the text layouts were extremely overwrought and probably intimidating to none comic book readers. As far as illustrated nonfiction goes otherwise I felt like the images were a helpful memory/interest aid.
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