In King, Ho Che Anderson rendered Martin Luther King Jr.'s life fromhis childhood in Atlanta to his tragic assassination in an expressionisticvisual style that propelled King's story with cinematic momentum: in doing so,he created a monumental graphic biography that liberated King from the saintly,one-dimensional, hagiographic image so prevalent in pop culture. Out of printsince 2006, Fantagraphics Books is publishing a newly designed volume, King:The Special Edition, that includes the original 240-page book as well asnearly a hundred additional pages of "extras," including:"Black Dogs," a 14-page prelude which features a dialogue between ayoung black couple expecting a child, living in LA in the aftermath of theRodney King riots; excerpts from the author's work diary; sketches; excerptsfrom the draft of the script; and an all-new epilogue titled"Assassin," written and drawn especially for this new edition. Thisbook is a must-have for libraries and is a wonderful educational resource forhigh school-aged-and-up students, as well as African-American Studiesprograms.