Suzanne: The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis is a stunningly-illustrated, well-researched graphic novel which tells the incredible story of Suzanne Lenglen – a woman who changed the face of sport and society in the trailblazing jazz age, but who few even remember. Suzanne explores how a figure both enormously influential and too-often overlooked battled her father’s ambition, bias in sporting journalism, and her own divisive personality, to forge a new path — and to change sport forever.
One of the greatest tennis players the world has ever seen was a woman few even remember.
A championship player by the age of fifteen in a Europe overshadowed by impending war, Suzanne Lenglen broke records for ticket sales and match winning streaks, scandalized and entranced the public with her playing outfits, and became a pioneer, making friends and enemies throughout restrictive tennis society in the trailblazing jazz age.
Suzanne is by Tom Humberstone, an award-winning comic artist and illustrator based in Edinburgh. He writes and draws non-fiction comics for The Nib, as well as the New Statesman, Vox, Buzzfeed and others. It’s out this September from Avery Hill Publishing.
Source: Graphic Policy
