Gary Phillips

Gary Phillips writes for several mediums from screenplays to comic books, and remembers vividly the days of disco and the fever that coke then crack unleashed. He is the author of several crime-fiction novels, including Bangers, and lives in Los Angeles.

Jervey Tervalon is the author of All the Trouble You Need, Understand This (winner of the 1994 New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club), and the acclaimed Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground. In 2001, he received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles National Literacy Award for Excellence in Multicultural Literature. He is also an award-winning poet, screenwriter, and dramatist. Currently, he’s the writer-in-residence at Pitzer College and is a California Arts Council Fellow. Jervey was born in New Orleans, raised in Los Angeles, and now lives in Altadena, California, with his wife and two daughters.

Books Authored

Image of The Be-Bop Barbarians: A Graphic Novel
Author(s):
Gary Phillips
Genre(s):
Graphic, Nonfiction, Comics, & Cartoons, 20th Century, Civil Rights

The Be-Bop Barbarians: Comic Book Bohemians to a 1950s Jazz Beat

February 4, 2019
Reviewed by: 
E. Ethelbert Miller

“this graphic novel is for readers who know how to snap their fingers while turning the page.”

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Books Edited

Image of The Cocaine Chronicles (Drug Chronicles)
Editor(s):
Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon
Genre(s):
Short Stories, Series, Anthology, Anthologies

The Cocaine Chronicles

October 22, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Michael Adelberg

“The best stories in The Cocaine Chronicles—including those of Mr. West, Mr. Brown, and Ms. Revoyr—are equal to the best fiction being written today.”

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