Boxing legend Muhammad Ali as you've never seen him

A powerful combination of photographs and comic book art is on display in a new graphic novel, Muhammad Ali, Kin­shasa 1974

Muhammad Ali, muscled, poised and with a punch ready to be thrown, is captured in a rarely seen photograph taken by Abbas At­tar at the Rumble in the Jungle, one of the boxer’s most famous matches, in 1974. In the next moment, illustrated by Rafael Ortiz, Ali delivers the blow to George Fore­man, and the panel seems to reverberate from its force.

That powerful combination of photographs and comic book art is on display in a new graphic novel, Muhammad Ali, Kin­shasa 1974, which retells the events of the legendary heavyweight title fight in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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