Local illustrator helps reimagine 'Huck Finn' tale through Jim's perspective Marcus Kwame Anderson worked with author David F. Walker on graphic novel "Big Jim and the White Boy" By Jim Shahen Jr ...

Big Jim and White Boy also vividly embraces some of the more complex historical details of the setting. Between John Brown and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri in the 1850s was a boiling point in ...

But it’s not the only reinterpretation of the Huck Finn mythos to come out in the past year. “Big Jim and the White Boy” is a graphic novel from writer David F. Walker and Capital Region ...

BOOK REVIEW In Percival Everett’s ‘James,’ Jim from ‘Huckleberry Finn’ moves out of the shadows and into full personhood Heir to Mark Twain’s satirical vision, Everett turns a boyhood ...

In "Big Jim and the White Boy," writer David Walker and illustrator Marcus Kwame Anderson have reimagined "Huckleberry Finn." They talk with NPR's Scott Simon about the new graphic novel.

In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down, placing Huck's enslaved companion Jim at the center.

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When Everett thought of writing Jim’s side of Huck Finn, he was surprised that no one had ever delivered that story before. The two fugitives are separated for a long section of Twain’s novel ...

In the mid-1980s, Broadway made an effort to recruit songwriters from Nashville and producers happened on a man named Roger Miller, at that point best known for penning the song “King of the … ...