{"product_id":"ghetto-klown-a-graphic-novel-paperback","title":"Ghetto Klown: A Graphic Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Leguizamo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChrista Cassano\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eShamus Beyale\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Eisner Award nominee, a graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning Broadway play \u003ci\u003eGhetto Klown, \u003c\/i\u003e is a \"hilarious Hollywood memoir\" (Lin-Manuel Miranda, from his introduction) and \"autobiographical dynamite\" (Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot D?az).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tony Award winner John Leguizamo lays bare his life story in this graphic novel illustrated by artists Christa Cassano and Shamus Beyale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He shares memories of his early years as an actor on stage, on television, and in major motion pictures opposite some of Hollywood's biggest stars--including Al Pacino, Patrick Swayze, and Steven Seagal--and working for directors Baz Luhrmann and Brian De Palma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leguizamo also opens up about his loves and marriages, while addressing self-doubt and melancholy in a way that enlightens and entertains. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[John] is a pioneer in theater and comedy, not just for Latin people, but as much as any comic or playwright I've ever seen or read. No one makes me laugh louder than this man. We are better because of him.\" --Sof?a Vergara\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The graphic novel of \u003ci\u003eGhetto Klown\u003c\/i\u003e captures the infectious spirit of John Leguizamo's live performances with the same surprising humor and cultural insight. These pages make John seem like the coolest super hero in New York.\" --Jesse Eisenberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Leguizamo\u003c\/b\u003e's 40-year career in show business includes turns in iconic movies such as \u003ci\u003eCarlito's Way\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomeo + Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoulin Rouge!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChef\u003c\/i\u003e, and Disney's \u003ci\u003eEncanto\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as six award-winning one-man Broadway shows. As writer and performer, Leguizamo created the Off-Broadway sensation \u003ci\u003eMambo Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e, (Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Vanguardia Awards), \u003ci\u003eSpic-O-Rama\u003c\/i\u003e (Dramatists' Guild Hull-Warriner Award for Best American Play, Lucille Lortel Outstanding Achievement Award for Best Broadway Performance, Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performance), and a third solo show, \u003ci\u003eFreak\u003c\/i\u003e, which completed a successful run on Broadway in 1998. A special presentation of \u003ci\u003eFreak\u003c\/i\u003e, directed by Spike Lee, aired on HBO, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program. In Fall 2001, Leguizamo returned to Broadway with \u003ci\u003eSexaholix . . . A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance and Tony Award nomination for Best Special Theatrical Performance). \u003ci\u003eSexaholix\u003c\/i\u003e also aired as an HBO Special in Spring 2002 and toured widely. In 2018, he received a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in New York City. \u003cb\u003eChrista Cassano\u003c\/b\u003e is a visual artist and storyteller. She was nominated for an Eisner Award for co-adapting \u003ci\u003eGhetto Klown\u003c\/i\u003e into a graphic novel, contributed to the \u003ci\u003eRESIST! \u003c\/i\u003enewsletter distributed at the Women's March on Washington 2017, and the comix anthologies \u003ci\u003eA.P.B.--Artists against Police Brutality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSchmuck\u003c\/i\u003e. She was artist in residence at Yaddo and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, a two-time Lloyd Sherwood Grant recipient, a winner of the EspoArte2000 Award for Excellence in Contemporary Art, among others, and is a former member of Hang Dai Studios in Brooklyn. She illustrated a visual life of Native American artist T.C. Cannon for the Museum of Modern Art in 2021, and appears in a Netflix documentary on the Fairbanks Four. \u003cb\u003eShamus Beyale\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, where he fell in love with reading, movies, video games, comic books, and drawing. After graduating from high school and receiving a Gates Millennium Scholarship, he attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan to study cartooning and graduated with a BFA. He has helped out on art direction for the DC Universe Online video game, published works from Zenescope Entertainment, and has storyboarded numerous TV commercials. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife. \u003cb\u003eDrew Friedman\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator whose work has appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eRAW\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeavy Metal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Lampoon, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMAD\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Since the beginning of his career in the 1980s, his work has both satirized and paid homage to celebrities and prominent pop-culture icons. As a portrait artist, Friedman prefers to draw subjects who interest him, from controversial political figures to famous Jewish comedians to legendary comic book creators. Friedman's incredibly detailed, sometimes gruesome, always deliberate pen-and-ink style has been praised by the likes of Kurt Vonnegut and R. Crumb. In 2000, Friedman received awards from the National Cartoonist Society for Newspaper Illustration and Magazine Illustration, and in 2014 he received the Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con. \u003cb\u003eLin-Manuel Miranda\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning composer, lyricist, singer, actor, producer, and playwright. He is the creator and star of the Broadway musicals \u003ci\u003eIn the Heights\u003c\/i\u003e, which won four Tony Awards, and \u003ci\u003eHamilton\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize and 11 Tony Awards, and Disney's \u003ci\u003eEncanto\u003c\/i\u003e. Miranda's accolades include three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Honor. 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