Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Jacket art for graphic novel Kindred

  • Contributors: Octavia Butler; by Damian Duffy and John Jennings ; introduction by Nnedi Okorafor.
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  • Summary: Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's science fiction classic is a powerfully moving, unflinching look at the violent, disturbing effects of slavery on the people it chained together, both black and white - and made kindred in the deepest sense of the word
  • Awards/Recognition:
    • Winner of Horror Writers Association's 2017 Bram Stoker Award 2017 (United States)
    • Short-listed for The Harvey Awards 2018 (United States)
    • No additional awards known of as of 10/1/2020. Please contact this project's researchers if you are aware of an award not listed.


  • Number of Pages: 255
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  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Publisher: Abrams Comicarts
  • ISBN: 9781419728556

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