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Kedzie Avenue is an expansive look at everyday life on a single street in twenty-first century Chicago. Drawing on a year's worth of reporting and interviews with a wide range of Chicagoans, the book weaves personal narrative, journalistic reportage, and frame-by-frame illustration into a complex portrait of an American city.

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With passion, empathy, and a generosity of spirit imbuing both their writing and artwork, the Illustrated Press are able to create a humane and heartfelt brand of comics journalism: quiet but powerful stories of ordinary people and looked-past places that command our attention and forge a living, breathing, necessary history of the everyday world we all share. Ivan Brunetti, author of Aesthetics: A Memoir Reporter Darryl Holliday and illustrator Erik Rodriguez are Chicago's pioneers of the comic journalism medium. Chicago magazine [The Illustrated Press is] an experiment in journalism from Chicagothe product of narrative non-fiction stories told through first-hand reportage and finely tuned sequential art. WGN Radio At times evoking the tradition of big-city metro columnistsor even the spirit of one of this city's literary lions, Studs Terkeltheir work offers heartfelt, often newsy, snapshots of life in Chicago, from a jail inmate's wedding at the Cook County Courthouse to one South Side community's drastic demographic change through the eyes of a longtime resident. Columbia Journalism Review [Darryl Holliday and Erik Rodriguez] seek answers to their burning questions. They highlight what they see as injustices. They analyze and criticize from a place of love. Printer's Row Journal, Chicago Tribune

Reporter Darryl Holliday and illustrator Erik Rodriguez are Chicago's pioneers of the comic journalism medium. Chicago magazine [The Illustrated Press is] an experiment in journalism from Chicagothe product of narrative non-fiction stories told through first-hand reportage and finely tuned sequential art. WGN Radio At times evoking the tradition of big-city metro columnistsor even the spirit of one of this city's literary lions, Studs Terkeltheir work offers heartfelt, often newsy, snapshots of life in Chicago, from a jail inmate's wedding at the Cook County Courthouse to one South Side community's drastic demographic change through the eyes of a longtime resident. Columbia Journalism Review [Darryl Holliday and Erik Rodriguez] seek answers to their burning questions. They highlight what they see as injustices. They analyze and criticize from a place of love. Printer's Row Journal, Chicago Tribune

With passion, empathy, and a generosity of spirit imbuing both their writing and artwork, the Illustrated Press are able to create a humane and heartfelt brand of comics journalism: quiet but powerful stories of ordinary people and looked-past places that command our attention and forge a living, breathing, necessary history of the everyday world we all share. Ivan Brunetti, author of <i>Aesthetics: A Memoir</i></p> Reporter Darryl Holliday and illustrator Erik Rodriguez are Chicago's pioneers of the comic journalism medium. <i>Chicago </i>magazine</p> [The Illustrated Press is] an experiment in journalism from Chicagothe product of narrative non-fiction stories told through first-hand reportage and finely tuned sequential art. WGN Radio</p> At times evoking the tradition of big-city metro columnistsor even the spirit of one of this city's literary lions, Studs Terkeltheir work offers heartfelt, often newsy, snapshots of life in Chicago, from a jail inmate's wedding at the Cook County Courthouse to one South Side community's drastic demographic change through the eyes of a longtime resident. <i>Columbia Journalism Review</i></p> [Darryl Holliday and Erik Rodriguez] seek answers to their burning questions. They highlight what they see as injustices. They analyze and criticize from a place of love. <i>Printer's Row Journal</i>, <i> Chicago Tribune</i></p>

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<b>Darryl Holliday</b> is a reporter, nonfiction writer and photographer living in Chicago. <b>Jamie Hibdon</b> is a cartoonist living in Chicago. When not working with the Illustrated Press, his work can be found in his ongoing anthology, <i>Lingua Franca Comics.</i> <b>E. N. Rodriguez</b> is an artist and graphic designer for <i>the Chicago Tribune</i>.

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