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Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

post #1 of 4
10/5/07 at 4:00pm
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Not sure how many people read 'The Golem's Mighty Swing', but the author James Sturm has a new book coming out about one of the most interesting and inspiring sports figures in history, Satchel Paige. A larger than life character with the talent to match, he was denied his chance to pitch in the majors until he was 41. And he still had great stuff.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=131868

If you read the previews it looks like Sturm and Rich Tommaso have nailed that deliberate, unique cadence of baseball, especially in the hands of a master like Paige.

December. Good gift idea.
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post #2 of 4
10/6/07 at 3:49am
Its definitely got that particular layout feel of Sturm's. The presentation of the wind-up very much reminds me of Golem's Mighty Swing.

Sturm's previous bio-comic, Houdini: The Handcuff King, is much recommended by me. Layouts by Jason Lutes (Berlin), finished art by Nick Bertozzi (The Salon). Good stuff.
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post #3 of 4
10/6/07 at 2:18pm
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I have not read that Houdini book. Gotta check it out.
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post #4 of 4
10/7/07 at 5:10am
It's a fairly simple story--one day in the life of Houdini, basically. But I think it was the simplicity of it that I appreciated the most. And Jason Lutes can stage a story and lay-out pages like a motherfucker.
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