The renowned graphic-book author Joyce Brabner's Second Avenue Caper is the true story of a tight-knit group of artists and activists living in New York City in the early 1980s who found themselves on the front lines in the fight against AIDS. Struggling to understand the disease and how they could help, they made a deal with a bona fide goodfella, donned masterful disguises, piled into an "A-Team" van, and set off for the border, determined to save their bedridden friends by smuggling an experimental drug into the United States from Mexico. With their community in crisis and the world turned…
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Editions
4 editions · 2 languages
Hardcover · English · 2014
Hill and Wang · 147 pages · 9780809035533
Other · English · 2019
Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9780374536626
Other · English · 2014
Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781429956154
Hardcover · Spanish · 2018
Trapicheos en la Segunda Avenida
Editorial Dos Bigotes · 168 pages · 9788494796326
AIDS (Disease)Comic books, stripsAids (disease), political aspectsAids (disease), united statesAids (disease), social aspectsLGBTQ HIV/AIDSLGBTQ graphic novelsLambda Literary Awards
