Pedro Zamora and Pedro and Me in Requiem: Scoring the Loss. Issue 1 (1st September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lewis, A. David
• Is Part Of: Comics grid. Volume 5:Issue 1(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-09-01
• DOI: 10.5334/cg.bf
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2048-0792

Abstract

Abstract : When originally published at the turn of the century, Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned (2000 ) was riding both the popularity of its reality television roots and the growing awareness of homosexuality in the popular consciousness. 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. The opportunity to finally include this apocrypha was missed in the newer 2009 addition, as the publisher opted for a one-page afterword. This paper discusses how this constitutes a missed opportunity to reconnect with Pedro. In as much as the original graphic novel—or any graphic novel—is a construction, the tenth anniversary edition of Pedro and Me disallowed the excluded raw material from being included in audience's score-overdue deconstruction of the work.