I tracked him down and found him to be uber generous with his advice. He had the vision to turn John Lewis’ life story into a graphic novel after traveling with this civil rights icon and being amazed at how little people knew about who he was and what he had done for our country. That eloquent twenty-something legislative aid and co-author who could share the stage with the mesmerizing John Lewis. I was, after all, on a mission from G-D.įirst stop – the pro. Ok – not back together like Jake Blues’ vision. Yes – I had to put another band together to create what would become Hour of Need. But I knew that there were people I could ask and who I would need to help. So how does one create a graphic novel? I did not know this when I saw the light. A textbook just does not convey the emotions and drama the way a graphic novel does. To his credit, my son did roll up his sleeves and give it a read but he considered it a painful slog. But try pitching a teenager, even ones prideful of their Jewish heritage, on reading a 500 page history book about the Holocaust. You would think your children would eagerly want to read a story that features their beloved grandmother and even has pictures of her as a child. However, the book about her experience runs over 500 pages of text. Members included everyday Danish people of all sorts – a math teacher, an insurance man, a hotel clerk and more. A band came together that saved my mother 80 years ago this September and October. I felt she had a story that needed to be told.Ī book had been written about my mother’s rescue and had published excerpts from my family’s diaries.
And the world needs to hear more about the heroes that were there during one of humanity’s darkest hours. Unlike many Holocaust stories, my mother’s story had heroes. Over 700 trips on fishing boats rescued most of Denmark’s Jews after word leaked of an impending Nazi round up. This was one small part of a bigger story, the rescue of the Danish Jews. I knew growing up that as a child turning nine, she had to flee with her family and got stowed away on a fishing boat that dodged Nazi patrols to take her to Sweden, where she spent the rest of World War II as a refugee. My mother had died the year before after a productive 81 years. And I was impressed to learn how it had become a staple in schools across the country as a way to teach the civil rights movement. I fell in love with Nate Powell’s art, how it made me feel immersed in the American South of the 1950s and how it filled me with pride of the election of our first black president.
WRITER DUET COMIC BOOK SCRIPT SERIES
(The Frank Miller Daredevil series is my prize!)Īnd I was able to pony up for the $19.95 that the first volume of the March trilogy (who is the high roller now?). I still have my 200+ comic collection from the ‘80s, and occasionally break them out to admire the Frank Millers I was able to scrounge up and by back then. But my friend Mike was a high roller and I got to read his edition. Too pricey for me at $2.95 when standard comics were going for $.60. And when I was a high school collector in the ‘80s, I remember setting my eyes on Frank Miller’s game changing The Dark Knight graphic novel. I’ll admit that I have never grown out of being a comic book fan. Today Ralph joins us for a guest post on the creation of his book, told in his very own inimitable style.
I wasn’t able to see author Ralph Shayne in conversation with illustrator Tatiana Goldberg, so we figured we’d present you with some info on the book in another way. Hour of Need is a tribute to these strangers – ordinary citizens who defied the Nazi regime – and how their heroic actions saved Danish Jews. Overnight, they became refugees at the mercy of strangers organizing their escape. “When Nazis moved to round up Danish Jews in a surprise raid in 1943, families were forced to make life-and-death decisions to save their lives. The story shares the true story of how the people of an occupied nation risked their lives to evacuate their Jewish countrymen. You see, recently a graphic novel was developed in partnership with the museum called Hour of Need. This past Sunday I missed a program at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center that I would have enjoyed greatly.
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