including lunch counter sit-ins and freedom rides. he had been beaten and arrested dozens of times. by then, he led the student nonviolent coordinating committee. he had already been the youngest speaker at the 1963 march on washington, alongside his hero, the reverend martin luther king jr. now, as the only surviving speaker of the march on washington, now in his 27th year in congress, civil rights icon john lewis has decided to pay it forward, working with acclaimed comic book artist nate powell and with a young staffer named andrew iden, who was so captivated by the idea of that 1958 comic, that he wrote a masters thesis about it. these three men together created a graphic novel about the life and the life s work of john lewis. it s planned as a trilogy, but the first volume, which is called march, part i, is out