Dead Man Walking launches...
Sister Helen Prejean and I got together at the local Barnes & Noble on Veterans for a semi-inaugural meeting about Graphic Dead Man Walking.
It was great to be in a place surrounded by books. We tucked ourselves away in the graphic novel/manga section, taking samples from the shelves and immersing ourselves in graphic styles. Helen, of course, came with an idea bubbling up.
She said, “Rose, you know about John Lewis and his March trilogy?”
I said yes.
“Really we have three books here.”
I said “Yes, I know” and I knew what was coming.
So already we’re planning the trilogy: Dead Man Walking, The Death of Innocents, River of Fire.
Two illustrators have caught our eye at the moment, Nate Powell, who did March, and the bloke in England, Fred Fordham, who did the illustrated adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird.
I can see us doing more work at B&N. We shared a coffee, we had someone take a photo of us to mark this historic inauguration. The surrounding shelves of books inspired us and, unlike a library, we could talk and be animated.