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1st Edition

Hardback (26 May 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The biography, in graphic novel format, of Latin American baseball star Roberto Clemente. It chronicles Clemente's life from his early days growing up in rural Puerto Rico, to the highlights of his career (including the 1960 World Series where he helped the Pirates win their first victory in 33 years and his 3000th hit in 1972 during the last official at-bat of his life). Also explores the discrimination he faced, his private life and his humanitarian work off the field.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781560978923
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 796.357092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 546g
Height: 203mm
Width: 162mm
Spine width: 23mm