A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020
YALSA 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
2021 Cartoonists Prize for Print Comics
2021 Eisner Awards Best Publication for Teens Nominee
Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author
Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black
child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding
backwoods.
Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young
Joel is pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything
and everyone around him. But fighting doesn't always yield the best
results for a confused and sensitive kid who yearns for a better, more
fulfilling life than the one he was born into, as Joel learns in a
series of brutal conflicts that eventually lead him to question
everything he has learned about what it truly means to fight for one's
life.
"FIGHTS is somehow brutally raw, funny as hell, deeply sensitive and
insightful in each panel." -- Nate Powell (March trilogy)