A Tale of Two Arthurs: Book 2

Download or read book A Tale of Two Arthurs: Book 2 written by Nine Antico and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2020-08-26T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Arthurs is an impressionistic chronicle of two very different men: Jack Arthur Johnson, the black American boxer, and Arthur Cravan, the white French poet and provocateur. These two men fought an improbable boxing match in Barcelona in 1916 which acts as the pivot point of this double-portrait which is also a kind of mirror: for despite their differences they were both fiercely independent individuals who in their own ways defied the mores of their time with a mixture of bravado, intelligence, and brute strength. Accompanying both men on their journeys is a celebrity chimpanzee named Consul who serves as the uniting thread — as well as the unlikely narrator — of this adventurous and ambitious comic.