Andy Helfer at Cody's Books in Berkeley, Wednesday 9/19

Wednesday, September 19 ANDREW HELFER, who has written everything from Batman to Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography, delivers his newest work, RONALD REAGAN: A Graphic Biography. Some presidents were just meant to be in pictures. Let’s face it: Ronald Reagan’s presidency is tailor-made for comic book art. It confronted evil empires, planned Star Wars missile defense systems, and advocated supply-side economics. Whether explaining how the onetime Franklin Roosevelt New Dealer became the conservative right’s standard-bearer, how a B-list actor became General Motor’s pitchman then governor of our state, or how a union president became an anti-union President, this graphic biography does what no other biography can: visually narrate the life of a man who relied on stage directions and political theater to become America’s “Great Communicator” The blended genius of Helfer, onetime group editor at DC Comics, Steve Buccellato, whose artwork has been published by Epic, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and Joe Saton, artist for E-Man, Green Lantern, and most recently Scooby-Doo, makes RONALD REAGAN an absolutely original, absolutely factual, and absolutely unforgettable history of America’s fortieth president. 7:00 PM at Cody’s on Fourth Street