![]() ![]() ![]() Above all else, I wanted it to appeal to young urban teens who might be dealing with gangs. I knew it’d be R rated and therefore wouldn't find the kids who needed to see this story. But it turned out for me, it was too strong for the movies. It was a finalist for the Sundance Film Labs which was a prestigious thing. The script turned out great-powerful stuff. I couldn't get the story out of my head and started writing it with a film in mind. Many of the kids had siblings who were in gangs or had been affected by gangs. At the time, there was a gang war going on in the area and there had been several memorials for students who'd been killed. Some felt Yummy was a straight-up thug who got what he deserved. When the Yummy story broke, a lot of discussions started popping up among the kids. Neri: Back in 1994 I was a filmmaker teaching workshops to kids in the inner-city schools of Los Angeles. ![]() Greg, when did you first decide to tell Yummy’s story? How did you initially envision this project? Neri and illustrator Randy DuBurke talk about Yummy's story and about how they created their graphic novel. In the graphic novel Yummy, a fictional boy living in Chicago's Southside tries to make sense of the life and death of Yummy, a real-life boy caught up in gang life and killed by the very gang to which he belonged. ![]()
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