Billie Holiday
By: Muñoz & Sampayo ; with an afterword by Stanley Crouch ; [translated by Katy MacRae, Robert Boyd and Kim Thompson]
Contributors: Sampayo, Carlos, 1943- author; Crouch, Stanley
Edition: First Fantagraphics books edition.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780560970852
Subjects: Comic books, strips; Singers; Biography; African American women singers
Description: "Writer Carlos Sampayo and artist José Muñoz have together created a complex story that weaves together episodes from Billie Holiday's life, the calculating commentary of a cynical, burned-out newspaper reporter, and the memories of Alack Sinner, a former police officer whose life intersected with Holiday's briefly but significantly. The three different versions of Holiday's life combine into a stunning portrait of a doomed artist. From her friendship with saxophonist Lester Young to her heroin addiction to the subtle expressiveness of her music Billie Holiday brings a great vocalist to life."--Cover.
Notes: Translated from the Spanish.