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Summer of HAMN : hollowpointlessness aiding mass nihilism / by Chuck D.

by Chuck D, 1960-

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Enemy Books, an imprint of Akashic Books, 2023.

Firearms and crime -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Political culture -- United States -- 21st century.

United States -- Politics and government -- 2021- -- Comic books, strips, etc.

9781636141527 (hc.)

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 21 cm.

"In Summer of Hamn, legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhythmic, inventive writing and passionately raw art. He has long spoken out against gun violence, including how it intersects with rap and hip-hop culture. Summer of Hamn is the bound journal Chuck D carried with him in the summer of 2022--a summer marked by a particularly high rate of gun death. In these pages, victims are memorialized, politicians are skewered, and vehement pleas to eradicate gun violence are made. Jaw-dropping statistics (40% of all personal guns in the world are owned by US citizens; there are 100 million more guns in the US than there are citizens) intersect with poetic reflections ("Another mall shooting seems normalized in Columbus / Raining outside in Ohio / Raining inside folks panic / Inside hearing shots bust"), all written in Chuck's hand over vibrant, utterly original, neoexpressionist ink and watercolor art. This book is the follow-up to STEWdio, the debut trilogy on Chuck D's Enemy Books imprint, in which he invented a new medium--the "naphic grovel"--a bound journal brimming with his observations and reflections of current events in both art and prose" --From publisher.

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Comic books, strips, etc.

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