Here is the text of the article from the NY Times dated Sept 9 regarding the graphic book written by my NYC birding acquaintance:
The impressionistic novel from Christian Cooper features a Black teenager who looks at birds through binoculars and instead sees the faces of Black people who have been killed by the police. Christian Cooper became one of the nation's most famous bird watchers when a video he filmed of his confrontation with a white woman in Central Park went viral. After Mr. Cooper asked her to leash her dog, she had warned him that she would falsely tell a 911 operator that "an African-American man is threatening my life."
But before that Memorial Day encounter, Mr. Cooper was well-known in a different realm: as a pioneering comic book writer. Now, Mr. Cooper is using his experience in Central Park as the inspiration for a graphic novel, "It's a Bird," published by DC Comics.In the graphic novel, which is digital only, he connects racism's daily humiliations and deadly police brutality. The same day that he faced the woman, Amy Cooper -; who is not related to Mr. Cooper -; George Floyd would die in Minneapolis under a police officer's knee.The slim, 10-page story is impressionistic, without a real plot. It is the first in a series called "Represent!" that features works of writers "traditionally underrepresented in the mainstream comic book medium," including people of color or those who are LGBTQ, Marie Javins, an executive editor at DC, said in a statement. It will be available online for free starting Wednesday, at several digital book and comic book retailers.














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