Paul Buhle is an aged revolutionary, involved in social movements for fifty years as of 2010. He founded the SDS journal Radical America, the Oral History of the American Left project at NYU, has taken part in many failed but semi-historic movements, and has been reinvented if not reborn as an editor/creator of radical comic books. He is still a syndicalist.
The Young C.L.R. James: A Graphic Novelette
SKU: 9781629635149
Illustrated: Milton Knight • Edited by Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629635149
Published: 4/2018
Format: Pamphlet, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page count: 48
Subjects: Comics-Biography/Black Studies
About
This unique comic by Milton Knight illuminates the early years of C.L.R. James (1901–1989), known in much later years as the “last great Pan-Africanist.” The son of a provincial school administrator in British-governed Trinidad, James disappointed his family by embracing the culture and passions of the colonial underclass, Carnival and cricket. He joined the literary avant-garde of the island before leaving for Britain. In the UK, James swiftly became a beloved cricket journalist, playwright for his close friend Paul Robeson, and a pathbreaking scholar of black history with The Black Jacobins (1938), the first history of the Haitian revolt.
A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel
SKU: 9781629633725
Editor: Paul Buhle • Illustrator: Tom Keough
Publisher: PM Press/Hungarian Literature Fund
ISBN: 9781629633725
Published: 5/2016
Format: Pamphlet, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 8.5 x 5.5
Page count: 42
Subjects: History-Ireland, Art-Comics, Graphic Biography
About
Executed by a British firing squad on May 12, 1916, for his role in organizing the Easter Rising, James Connolly was one of the most prominent radical organizers and agitators of his day. Born in Scotland in 1868 to Irish immigrant parents, Connolly spent most of his adult life organizing for labor unions and socialist organizations in Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. Despite attending school for only a few years, Connolly became a leading socialist writer and theoretician, founding and editing newspapers including The Socialist (Scotland), The Harp (United States), and The Workers’ Republic (Ireland). As a labor organizer, Connolly stressed the importance of direct action, broad working-class unity, and a commitment to ending labor’s exploitation. As a socialist agitator, Connolly saw economic and political independence as inextricably intertwined. This pamphlet, the first graphic treatment of Connolly’s life, is issued on the centenary of the Easter Rising.
Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero, A Graphic Guide
SKU: 9781604864816
Editors: Jeremy Adam Smith and Tomas Moniz
Publisher: PM Press/Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 9781604864816
Published: 9/2011
Format: Paperback, ePub, mobi, PDF
Size: 5 x 8
Page count: 200
Subjects: Parenting, Politics, Sociology
Praise
“Paul Buhle is the best informed and most sincere left-wing scholar that I know.” —Harvey Pekar, artist
“Paul Buhle is my socialist conscience.” —Robert Crumb, artist
Introductions by
Radical America Komiks
SKU: 9781629635675
Editor: Gilbert Shelton • Introduction: Paul Buhle • Foreword: Jay Kinney
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629635675
Published: 12/2018
Format: Paperback
Size: 7 x 10
Page count: 64
Subjects: Art-Comics / History-U.S., 1960s
“Radical America Komiks was the funniest issue of that whole
series of New Left magazines because it included the best cartoonists
in the underground. Gilbert Shelton, master humorist, creator of the
Furry Freak Brothers, edited the extra-thick comic book as one of the
earliest projects at his fledgling company Rip Off Press. Nothing like
funnies to liven up political discussions.”
—Patrick Rosenkranz, author of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution
“Radical America Komiks is a treasury of Austin’s radical
artists from the 1960s and ’70s, especially Gilbert Shelton, truly a
global figure of comix innovation.”
—Thorne Dreyer, founding editor of The Rag
“Radical America Komiks not only provides an unparalleled
sense of how leftist politics and avant-garde narrative art intersected
at the end of the sixties, it anticipates many of the innovations and
tropes we associate with the alternative comics movement of the 1980s
and 1990s.”
—Kent Worcester, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium
“There is a certain irony that Radical America Komiks is
likely to be one of the best-remembered parts of Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS). That the visual and the satirical turn out to
have a longer shelf life than the polemical would perplex, and more, the
members of SDS who encountered the wonderful comix drawn and assembled
by Gilbert Shelton. Viva comics, no matter how it is spelled!”
—James Danky, Underground Classics Illustrated
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Reviews
- You Can Read It in the Funny Papers
- William Morris on Rain Taxi
- Who’s your favorite Robin?
- What Modern America Is All About: On the Ground, A Review
- We Called Each Other Comrade — a window into American radical publishing history
- The Young C.L.R. James in Race & Class
- The Young C.L.R. James in Hypelit.com
- The Young C.L.R. James in Against the Current
- The Struggle For The Commons
- The Fifth Inning on Swans.com
- The Cost of Lunch, Etc.: A Review in Swans Commentary
- The Black Wobbly
- The Anarchist in the Comic Book Shop
- Science Fiction in a Time of Crisis in Filmmaker Magazine
- Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero, A Graphic Guide in the MidWest Book Review
- Robin Hood in Socialist Action
- Robin Hood in North Adams Transcript
- Remembering Spain Rodriguez (1940-2012)
- Real Cost of Prisons in the Monthly Review
- Radical America Komiks in Staf Magazine (Spanish)
- PM Press Reissues Radical America Komiks, Proving There Is Still Hope For Humanity
- Paul Buhle on Comics: The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom
- On the Ground: The Brainpan Review
- On the Ground: New Book Collection of Sixties Underground Press
- On the Ground: A Review
- On the Ground Reviewed in Logos
- On the Ground on RalphMag
- On the Ground in The Rag Blog
- On the Ground in Counterpunch
- Occupy Sherwood Forest
- Notes from Underground: On the Ground in Guernica
- Notes from Underground
- New York According to the Artist behind ‘Spy vs. Spy’
- Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton on CounterPunch
- Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Lucky Strike
- Joe Hill Again!
- Jobs with Justice: 25 Years to Trying to Transform Gompersism in the Labor Movement
- From the Foreword to E.P. Thompson’s “William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary”
- Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! on Counterpunch
- Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! in the New York Journal of Books
- Department of Book Reports: “We Called Each Other Comrade”
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds in Rain Taxi
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds in MBW
- Bringing Pan-Africanist C.L.R. James To a New Generation
- Black Mask: Trip Through an Anarchist Turf War
- Anarchy Comics in Anarchist Studies
- A Red Robin?
- A New Notion: Two Works by C.L.R. James
- (H)afrocentric Comics in Socialism & Democracy
Interviews
- Galileo’s Dream: A Q & A with Kim Stanley Robinson
- Allen Ruff speaking at the Cooperatives for Labor rally
- The Happy Hero: An Interview With Paul Buhle About Robin Hood
- ‘A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel’
- Paul Buhle talking about A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel on Law & Disorder Radio May 23rd, 2016
- Gilbert Shelton, Famed Freak Bros Artist, and Graphic Novel Publisher Paul Buhle