Kedzie Avenue

"Reporter Darryl Holliday and illustrator Erik Rodriguez are Chicago's pioneers of the comic journalism medium." —Chicago magazine"[The Illustrated Press is] an experiment in journalism from Chicago—the product of narrative non-fiction stories told through first-hand reportage and finely tuned sequential art." —WGN Radio"At times evoking the tradition of big-city metro columnists—or even the spirit of one of this city's literary lions, Studs Terkel—their work offers heartfelt, often newsy, snapshots of life in Chicago, from a jail inmate's wedding at the Cook County Courthouse to one South Side community's drastic demographic change through the eyes of a longtime resident." —Columbia Journalism Review"[Darryl Holliday and Erik Rodriguez] seek answers to their burning questions. They highlight what they see as injustices. They analyze and criticize from a place of love."—Printers Row Journal, Chicago TribuneKedzie Avenue is an expansive look at everyday life on a single street in twenty-first century Chicago. Drawing on a year's worth of reporting and interviews with a wide range of Chicagoans, the book weaves personal narrative, journalistic reportage, and frame-by-frame illustration into a complex portrait of an American city.Darryl Holliday is a Studs Terkel Award–winning reporter, nonfiction writer, and photographer living in Chicago.Jamie Hibdon is a cartoonist living in Chicago. When not working with the Illustrated Press, his work can be found in his ongoing anthology, Lingua Franca Comics.E. N. Rodriguez is an artist and graphic designer for the Chicago Tribune.