MAROON COMIX!
Ecosocialist Horizons in collaboration with PM Press is proud to present:
Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms in the forests. They didn’t just escape and steal from plantations—they also planted and harvested polycultures. They not only fought slavery but proved its opposite, and for generations they defended it with blood and brilliance.
Maroon Comix is a fire on the mountain where maroon words and images meet to tell stories together. Stories of escape and homecoming, exile and belonging. Stories that converge on the summits of the human spirit, where the most dreadful degradation is overcome by the most daring dignity. Stories of the damned who consecrate their own salvation.
With selections and citations from the writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz, Herbert Aptheker, C.L.R. James, and many more, accompanied by comics and illustrations from Songe Riddle, Mac McGill, Seth Tobocman, and others, Maroon Comix is an invitation to never go back, to join hands and hearts across space and time with the maroons and the mountains that await their return.”
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Praise
“Maroon Comix is breathtaking! I say that after decades of study and practice in that arena. One who is serious about resisting the dragons that threaten our very existence will use Maroon Comix to help fashion or reinforce their place within the hydra of twenty-first-century Maroons.”
—Russell Maroon Shoatz, author of Maroon the Implacable
“I was drawn immediately into this exceptionally stimulating world of history and I didn’t put Maroon Comix down until the very last page! It was as if I too was in the swamp lands and running through the forests and up into the hills determined to live Free! I love how the circularly positioned routes of art and text take one on an in depth journey into realms of resistance that many have never known existed! THIS is how history should be taught! I am inspired…I am elevated….and I too, am Maroon!”
– Mama Charlotte Hill O’Neal aka Iya Osotunde Fasuyi, Black Panther Party, Kansas City Chapter, co-founder of the United African Alliance Community Center, Tanzania
“The history and stories that the Maroons personified should inspire a whole new generation of abolitionists. This comic illustration can motivate all those looking to resist modern capitalism’s twenty-first-century slavery and the neofascism we are facing today.”
—Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Black Panther Party, New York Chapter, executive director of Community Change Africa”
“I very much enjoyed Maroon Comix – quite an artistically lively and politically vital project. Maroon Comix provides a graphically vivid and easily readable account of the history that the ruling class has done all in its power to bury. And, very importantly, this work presents ways to build on and carry forward today the wonderfully liberatory spirit of the Maroons.”
–David Gilbert, US political prisoner, author of “Love and Struggle”
“MARRONAGE – the art of being a maroon – needs to be expanded into a principle of resistance to the totality and the construction of a new reality: – The Great Dismal Swamp as living utopia. This fine comic book (“comic” because it’s not “tragic”) should be infiltrated into every schoolhouse and factory in “Capitalist Modernity”!”
– Hakim Bey, author of TAZ: Temporary Autonomous Zone
“The activist artists of Maroon Comix have combined and presented struggles past and present in a vivid, creative, graphic form, pointing a way toward an emancipated future.”
—Marcus Rediker, coauthor of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
“Maroon Comix, a marvelously scripted and drawn comic, will bring a new generation of readers information and insights into the brave struggle of slaves and their supporters to create free communities of color.”
– Paul Buhle, retired Lecturer, Brown University, Editor of RED ROSA, CHE, A PEOPLES HISTORY OF AMERICAN EMPIRE and other comics.
“With bold graphics and urgent prose, Maroon Comix provides a powerful antidote to toxic historical narratives. By showing us what was, Quincy Saul and his talented team allow us to see what’s possible.”
—James Sturm, founder of the Center for Cartoon Studies
“One of the best things in the history of the world.”
–John Clark, author of “The Impossible Community”, founder of the La Terre Institute for Community and Ecology, Louisiana
