“On the Sidewalk Bleeding” is an elegant tale about a 16 year old boy, named Andy, who had a major part of his life taken up by the gang he was partaking in: “Royals”. The main character goes through a series major emotional and physical pain through the course of a short period of time, stretched through 8 pages. First, he gets stabbed violently by a member of the enemy gang (named “Guardians”) and is left to die in a cold and damp alley. Slowly our protagonist realizes he is dying, and for a reason only because of the label he was given and known as. “He wondered suddenly if the Guardians who had ambushed him and knifed him had ever once realized he was Andy? Or had they simply known that he was a “Royal?” Andy thinks to himself. Throughout