Now
a FX/Hulu Original Series from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Darren
Aronofsky and starring Mallori Johnson and Micah Stock
#1 New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium
Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction
masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.
More than 35 years after its
release, Kindred
continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the
violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States,
and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by
celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John
Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler's mysterious
and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the
antebellum South through the 20th century.
Butler's most celebrated,
critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black
woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in
1970s California to the pre-Civil War South. As she time-travels
between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is
part of her own complicated familial history on a southern
plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of
Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own
ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.
Held up as an essential work in
feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, as well as a
cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, the intersectionality of
race, history, and the treatment of women addressed in the book still
remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the
classroom and in the public sphere.
Frightening, compelling, and
richly imagined, Kindred
offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history,
transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work
for a new generation of readers.