Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the
mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms
in the forests. They didn't just escape and steal from plantations--they
also planted and harvested polycultures. They not only fought slavery
but proved its opposite, and for generations they defended it with blood
and brilliance.
Maroon Comix is a fire on the mountain where maroon words and images
meet to tell stories together. Stories of escape and homecoming, exile
and belonging. Stories that converge on the summits of the human spirit,
where the most dreadful degradation is overcome by the most daring
dignity. Stories of the damned who consecrate their own salvation.
With selections and citations from the writings of Russell Maroon
Shoatz, Herbert Aptheker, C.L.R. James, and many more, accompanied by
comics and illustrations from Songe Riddle, Mac McGill, Seth Tobocman,
and others, Maroon Comix is an invitation to never go back, to join
hands and hearts across space and time with the maroons and the
mountains that await their return.