Introduction. Graphic memories in "black and white" -- The icon of the once and future King -- Bleeding histories on the march -- On photo-graphic narrative : "to look--really look" into the darkroom -- The silence of our friends and memories of Houston's civil rights history -- Tropes, transfer, trauma : the lynching imagery of stuck rubber baby -- Epilogue. Cyclops was right: X-lives matter! -- Appendix. A conversation with Ho Che Anderson, author-artist of King.