National Book Award, 5 years later.

So much to reflect on today: five years ago, March: Book Three received the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (and became the first comic to shatter the boundaries and win). Just a week after America’s worst people chose the promise of fascism, the evening felt like a haven for people bound together by ideas and conscience.

John Lewis brought down the house with his recollection of being denied a library card as a child in segregated Alabama, and by his dedication of the award to his late wife Lillian, a librarian.

Our work was only possible thanks to the diligence and incredible efforts of our editor extraordinaire (and publicist!) Leigh Walton, the 4th member of our creative team.

Here’s to humanity, and to our ongoing work to push for a society rejecting power, rejecting hierarchy, destroying the grip of white supremacy. Love to everybody. Rest in Peace, Congressman.