![]() ![]() ![]() In as much as the original graphic novel-or any graphic novel-is a construction, the tenth anniversary edition of Pedro and Me disallowed this raw material from being included in audience’s score-overdue deconstruction of the work. The shame here is that these unrealized scenes aptly reflected the unresolved issues of identity, ethnicity, and orientation raised in the content and analysis of the original edition. ![]() 185) focused on characters’ expanded biographies. The opportunity to finally include this apocrypha was missed in the newer 2009 addition, as the publisher opted for a one-page afterword on Updates (p. ![]() At that time, too, Macmillan publisher Henry Holt had its own website set up to support Winick’s work it featured interviews, tour dates, and, most importantly, omitted scenes originally drafted but not completed by the author. When originally published at the turn of the century, Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned was riding both the popularity of its reality television roots in The Real World and the growing awareness of homosexuality in the popular consciousness. It has been twenty years since Pedro Zamora died, yet the most recent edition of Judd Winick’s Pedro and Me graphic novel (published in 2009) failed, in some measure, to live up to its subtitle: it remained a story about Friendship but inadvertently added to the Loss by adding little to What I Learned over the past two decades. ![]()
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