by Lindsey | Mar 20, 2023 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Graphic Novel
The Holodomor, or Great Famine of Ukraine, is another black hole in history. Current scholarship estimates 3.5 to 5 million people of Ukraine died over the 1932 to 1933 year, as collectivization disrupted small farms and Stalin attempted to stamp out resistance with...
by prfire | May 24, 2019 | Book Reviews, Graphic Novel
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike. The strike lasted 42 days, involved around 35000 workers, and took place in the shadow of both widespread strikes in North America and worker’s revolutions in Russia and Germany. It represents...
by prfire | Apr 16, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Graphic Novel
There is a tendency when thinking about the history of comic books to privilege the superhero, to reduce comics as a medium to the mystery men and women who fight crime in all their caped glory. There are both historic and cultural reasons that this happen—the birth...
