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Prince of Cats is the B side to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, played at an eighties block party in a NY where underground sword dueling blossomed alongside hip-hop, punk, disco and no wave. It's the story of the minor players with Tybalt at the center. Like Shakespeare's originals, Prince of Cats implements various formalist restraints. The definitive printing of Ronald Wimberly's critically acclaimed first work, presented as intended for the first time.

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ISBN-13:	9781632159267
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 12.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

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Ronald Wimberly was the artist on Percy Carey's acclaimed memoir, SENTENCES, published in 2007 by Vertigo. As a young African American artist living in Brooklyn, he brings an authenticity to this project like no one else could. He's done extensive design and commercial work and has worked with Spike Lee on some of his film projects, most notably Miracle at St. Anna.

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Shakespeare’s impact on literature and culture cannot be overstated; put simply, his plays have had a monumental effect on literature and the English language in general, and continue to inspire to this day. Yet for some, puzzling through that archaic language can be an intimidating challenge. No worries: here are 21 novels based on or […]

There is a long and rich tradition of re-imagining Shakespeare examples include the Tempest-inspired SF movie Forbidden Planet, the fascist Britain that never was of director Richard Loncraine’s Richard III, and West Side Story’s modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Now former cartoonist Wimberly adds to that body of work with this new version of Romeo and Juliet, set in a Japanese-flavored futuristic New York and focusing on Tybalt, the eponymous Prince of Cats. Proud and as easily affronted as any Renaissance-era Verona aristocrat, Tybalt seeks love and a place in the world, but finds only violence and needless death. The stylized graffiti-inspired art doesn’t shy away from the violence of the story, reflecting the brutal world the protagonist sometimes finds himself in, but the impact is somewhat dulled by overly dark coloring. The setting and recasting of the characters as African-Americans invites a comparison with West Side Story and its racial conflicts, and serves as a similarly worthy recasting of the timeless waste of feuding factions. (Sept.)

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Praise for Ron Wimberly's SENTENCES:
"Transports hip-hop's braggadocio energy and irresistible rhythms onto the page. GRADE: A-"—WASHINGTON POST

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Romeo is only a supporting player in this vibrant hip-hop drama based on Shakespeare and set in 1980s Brooklyn. Now Juliet’s cousin Tybalt holds center stage, with a slashing samurai sword as his claw. Wimberly’s high-saturated color marries inventive writing creating a winning blend of street-talk and hip-hop rhythms of Shakespearean elegance in iambic pentameter. Older teens up due to violence, nudity, implied sex, and street language.
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