With the completion of King in 2003, graphic novelist and illustrator Ho Che Anderson created a "milestone for biographical comics," according to Steve Raiteri in Library Journal. Anderson's three-volume graphic novel on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been praised variously as "eye-poppingly formidable," by a contributor for Publishers Weekly, and as a "study in extremes," as Murray Whyte wrote in the New York Times, "full of raw, visceral energy." Anderson, a high-school dropout, spent more than a dozen years on this monumental comics project. Born in the United Kingdom of Jamaican descent, Anderson noted for Whyte that his book is intended as an "interpretation." He further explained, "I think of it as a nonfiction novel. It's a riff on [King]. It's an idea. I'm hoping that it's a compelling enough narrative that people will be inspired to go back and learn more about him themselves...