A graphic novel biography following the life of Bobby Fischer, from
chess wunderkind and national hero to his eventual spiral into
madness and infamyThe life of Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) had many
unexpected moves—from his solitary childhood to his stratospheric
accomplishments in the world of competitive chess, and eventually,
his decent into mental illness and disgrace. Black and White begins
in Brooklyn, where Fischer was born and raised by a single mother.
By the time he was a teen, he had established himself as a loner
and dropped out of school. But none of that mattered; he had found
his true calling—chess.In 1972, at age 13, Fischer played what
many consider “the game of the century†against the Soviet
Union’s chess champion Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold
War. A year later, Fischer became the youngest-ever US Chess
Champion, and at 15, the game’s youngest grandmaster. Never
before had chess received such international attention. Fischer,
whose sole focus in life up until then was chess, reached the
Olympus of chess at 29, and then . . . he disappeared. Suffering
from mental illness, the chess genius became increasingly paranoid,
lost in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories—despite the fact that he
himself was Jewish—and died as a fugitive in Iceland. With Black
and White, author Julian Voloj and illustrator William Wagner have
crafted a beautiful and fascinating work that reveals Fischer’s
history while also contextualizing his lasting impact on pop
culture. Black and White is the first-ever graphic novel to tell
Fischer’s story and examine the legacy he left behind.
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