![]() He was a vegetarian and an animal rights activist. And I found Benjamin Lay to be a compelling character. I turned the offer down several times.įinally, I read Marcus Rediker’s book The Fearless Benjamin Lay, which is what our graphic novel is based on. (I’m more of a nineteenth-century person.) And I didn’t know that much about Quakers or the history of abolition. I know very little about the eighteenth century. It’s on Benjamin Lay.” I had to confess I’d never heard of Benjamin Lay. He wrote to me and said, “We have this book project, and I think you’d be a great artist to do it. I knew him previously from working with the Graphic History Collective, who did the 1919 book. I completed that 93-page book in 53 days, which is insane! There was a publisher’s deadline, so it had to be done quickly or it wasn’t going to be done at all. It was the story of what we believe to be the longest general strike in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ĭavid Lester: This project began just after I had finished a graphic novel called 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike. Tell me about Benjamin Lay and how you hooked into this book project Prophet Against Slavery. But it seems obvious that history continues to evolve in the present. John Malkin: History seems static: as if it’s happened, and all we can do is look back at it and observe the linear facts. ![]()
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