Before he was co-author of a New York Times bestselling graphic memoir about the life of Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin was Lewis’s communications staffer. “You know, you work in politics, and in some ways, you work around many, many storytellers,” he says. “And John Lewis is the best storyteller.”
The inspiration for the memoir March: Book One, which came out in July, derived from a 1956 comic book about events in the life of another civil rights activist and storyteller, called Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. (You can see that full book here.)
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