Category Archives: Paracuellos

There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part II

Posted on February 16, 2020 by admin

One of the first examples of a graphic narrative about an immigrant’s experience is literature is The Four Immigrants Manga (1931), written and illustrated by Henry Kiyama, 1885-1951). The book went out of print and was lost until it was translated … Continue reading →

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There and here: Diaspora communities in graphic literature and comix, Part 1

Posted on February 2, 2020 by admin

From Wikipedia: “…diaspora is used to refer to the involuntary mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, most notably the Jews who were dispersed from the Land of Israel in antiquity” So I am a member of this … Continue reading →

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Comix, kids, trauma, and war

Posted on July 18, 2017 by admin

Graphic novels are a great way to read and learn about history. Not so much the grand narratives in history books and textbooks. These books describe big events, and as described by Wikipedia “as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, … Continue reading →

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