An immersive character-study of one of the most controversial figures in sports history ... Lyrical narration and powerfully evocative black-and-white illustration combine for an uncommonly propulsive, completely immersive biography.
Evocative and entrancing ... With red ink luridly accentuating the brutal black-and-white tale, Daoudi’s exceptional sense of anatomy, expressions, and choreography combine with the snap of Matejka’s text to vividly depict this defiant and flawed man’s struggle against a culture built to dehumanize him and equipped with laws to break him.
A desert boxing match becomes an epic, a tragic symbol, and a thunderous encapsulation of America’s bloody racial history ... This is a big brawl of a book that, like the greatest boxing matches, finds the poetry in the violence.
