The following is from David F. Walker’s Big Jim and the White Boy. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. He is best known for his work in comics, including Shaft: A Complicated Man and Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, and Deadpool. He is the author of the novel Shaft’s Revenge, the first new novel starring the iconic black detective in more than forty years.
From Big Jim and the White Boy by David F. Walker, illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson. Used with permission of the publisher, Ten Speed Graphic. Copyright © 2024 by David F. Walker.