The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyl
e spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Bak
er, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history
of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behin
d millennial communities, and covering the rise of Greenwich Village, the multir
acial and radical jazz world, and West Coast and Midwest bohemians, among other
scenes. Drawn by an all-star cast of comics artists, including rising figures li
ke Sabrina Jones, Lance Tooks, and Summer McClinton, alongside established artis
ts like Peter Kuper and Spain Rodriguez, Bohemians is a broad and entertaining a
ccount of the rebel impulse in American cultural history.
