Battling the Epidemic of Loneliness: A Review of SEEK YOU
Seek You, by Kristen Radtke, is a gorgeous meditation on loneliness, a longing for human connection that one does not have. Radtke delicately and devastatingly explores this longing and desperation for connection through technology that hides the emptiness behind the promise of community.
The Civil Right Movement and the Struggle of Nonviolence: A review of RUN
RUN chronicles John Lewis’s life story from the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the beginning for the Black Power movement, and looks at the struggle for Lewis to commit to the nonviolent rhetoric of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Review of This Place: 150 Years Retold
A beautiful collection of stories that convey the history of indigenous people and their interactions with an abusive national government and the dominant population.
Perspectives and Knowing: A Review of Unflattening
A graphic novel that argues that the unending quest for knowledge requires the continued merger of ways of knowing, and that comics are in the unique position to fulfill the objectives of such a quest
A Battle for the Survival of Earth and the Value of People: A review of Last Pick
A graphic novel trilogy about what people can accomplish once they are freed from under labels placed on them to demean their value, ability, and contributions to society
Reading Queer: A Graphic History
Meg-John Barker and Jules Sheele provide a strong introduction that will help any newcomers start their familiarization with Queer history