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| The cover of the 2013 Fantagraphics version |
The medium of comics has many masterpieces, books that
exemplify what comics is capable of as an artform and transcend their
respective genres to make universal statements about life and the human
condition. These are debatable criteria for defining art, as all such criteria
are, but what is not debatable is that 7
Miles a Second is a comics masterpiece. An autobiographical story of artist
and activist David Wojnarowicz with art by James Romberger and colors by
Marguerite Van Cook, the title comes from the escape velocity for Earth’s
gravitational pull, but also describes the propulsion through time and space
that the reader experiences in a narrative that takes less than seventy pages
but encompasses so much.
