50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Top 10 Graphic Novels

#9. Sentences: The Life of M.F. Grimm
Written by Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly

M.F. Grimm was born Percy Carey, a New Yorker who grew up in the joyful, violent early days of hip-hop. A genius on the microphone, Grimm lost his freedom, and the use of his legs, to his second career as a drug dealer. He tells his story in this painfully honest, un-self-pitying graphic memoir, which tracks his dizzying rise (with cameos by P. Diddy, Dr. Dre, and many others), his terrifying flame-out, and his slow, painful resurrection.

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