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THE WASHINGTON POST on NAT TURNER "Intricately expressive faces and trenchant dramatic pacing evoke the diabolic slave trade's real horrors." Evan Narcisse, THE WASHINGTON POST
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VARIETY.COM ON NAT TURNER:Nat Turner #1, by Kyle Baker (Kyle Baker Publishing, 48 pages, b&w, $3) is the first of four issues devoted to the true tale of the slave who led a rebellion in 1831 Virginia. Baker begins his nearly silent story (only one page has any text to read — a short entry from the journal of a slave ship captain) with a kind of action setpiece as a slaving party in Africa captures villagers to be sent to American shores. Baker’s storytelling is magnificent and he really lets the story breathe, rarely using more than three panels per page and designing lots of white space to give the book a unique, non-comicbooky look. Further setting the book apart from other Baker projects such as Plastic Man or Birth of a Nation, each panel is drawn in a pencil/charcoal style that makes the eye linger on each page. An excellent book. Grade: A Tom McLean, VARIETY.COM |
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY LOVES NAT TURNER. "It's a hauntingly beautiful historical spotlight. Grade: A-" Abby West, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
INDIANAPOLIS STAR CALLS NAT TURNER "a moving look at the life and death of the American slave and rebellion leader." - Marisol Gouveia, INDIANAPOLIS STAR
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AINTITCOOL.COM ON NAT TURNER:"Simply some of the finest black-and-white cartooning of the year year...Worth a look both for Baker’s art and the challenging subject matter." Dave Farabee, Aintitcool.com
NASHVILLE CITY PAPER "Nat Turner is an excellent comic and without a doubt one of cartoonist Kyle Baker’s strongest efforts in years. " Wil Moss, Nashville City Paper
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COLUMBUS ALIVE on KYLE BAKER "Reading a Baker book is like seeing the whole history of animation (or at least the highlights) distilled into a few well-chosen lines." J. Caleb Mozzocco, COLUMBUS ALIVE
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