IDW/Prime Shelf To Publish George Takei’s It Rhymes With Takei

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IDW/Prime Shelf publishes George Takei’s It Rhymes With Takei in June 2025 by Concord Becker, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger & José Villarrubia

Bleeding Cool talked about that this was coming over a month in the past, however it took just a little longer to announce, and skipping NYCC altogether. Prime Shelf Productions, a part of IDW Publishing, is to publish It Rhymes With Takei. a brand new full-colour graphic novel memoir from the crew behind They Known as Us Enemy, telling the untold story of his journey from closeted actor to homosexual icon and can be printed in June 2025. Prime Shelf states that It Rhymes With Takei will “supply an unprecedented view into the guts of this beloved star and a celebration of the warp-speed modifications he has witnessed in a single lifetime.”

“George Takei has proven the world many faces: actor, writer, outspoken activist, helmsman of the starship Enterprise, dwelling witness to the internment of Japanese People, and king of social media. However till October 27, 2005, there was all the time one piece lacking—one face he didn’t present the world. There was one very intimate truth about George that he by no means shared…and it rhymes with Takei.

“Now, for the primary time ever, George Takei shares the total story of his life within the closet, his resolution to come back out as homosexual on the age of 68, and the way in which that second remodeled all the pieces. Following the exceptional success of his first graphic memoir, They Known as Us Enemy, Takei reunites with the crew of Concord Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger, now joined by the award-winning colorist José Villarrubia, for a jaw-dropping new testomony. From his earliest childhood crushes and youthful experiments within the rigidly conformist Fifties, to world fame as an actor and the paralyzing concern of publicity, to the watershed second of talking his reality and changing into one of the high-profile homosexual males on the planet, It Rhymes With Takei presents a sweeping portrait of 1 iconic American navigating the tides of LGBTQ+ historical past.

“Combining historic context with intimate subjectivity, It Rhymes With Takei exhibits how the private and the political have all the time been intertwined. Its richly emotional phrases and pictures depict the phobia of entrapment even in homosexual neighborhood areas, the anguish of talking up for therefore many points whereas remaining silent on his most private subject, the grief of shedding buddies to AIDS, the enjoyment of discovering real love with Brad Altman, and the dedication to declare that love brazenly—and legally—earlier than the entire world.

“Wanting again on his astonishing life on each side of the closet, George Takei now presents a charismatic and candid witness to how far America has come…and the way valuable that progress is.”

The title additionally displays one of many very first graphic novels known as, It Rhymes With Lust.

It Rhymes With Takeiby George Takei, Concord Becker, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, & José VillarrubiaISBN 9781603095747 | $29.99 (US)Full-color hardcover, 6.5″ x 9″ | 328 pagesComing June 2025

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