By Aaron McGruder and Reginald Hudlin
Illustrated by Kyle Baker
"...The idea behind Birth of a Nation came together while hanging out at the San Diego Comic Book Convention with friend and collaborator Aaron McGruder. We were trying to come up with a movie idea that was funny and easy to sell. I suggested the idea of East St. Louis seceding and forming its own country.
BOOM!
A weekend of intense brainstorming turned into a year of obsession. Aaron and I share many of the same interests--the global realignment of black people, alternative fuel sources ... Anyway, passions, dreams, and personal experiences were poured into the draft. ... But when we finished we had a project that fans of our work would love, but no movie studio would make. ..." — Reginald Hudlin from the Introduction, Birth of a Nation
"Brilliant, biting, and witty ... Hudlin and McGruder have achieved that rarest of things: a political satire that is also an extremely important and moving work of literature." —HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
Three Rivers Press, 2005, 137pp
