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Today's #SJComix365 is "Introducing Fascism: A Graphic Guide" by Stuart Hood and Litza Jansz ( Part of the ‘Introducing’ series by Icon Books, 2015 ). Introducing Fascism investigates four types of Fascism that emerged after the First World War in Italy, Germany, Spain and Japan. It also looks beyond the current headlines of neo-Nazi hooliganism and examines the increasing political success of the far right in Western Europe and the explosion of ultra-nationalisms in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. ✨ #comics #graphicnovels #fascism #graphicguide #historyoffascism #iconbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/BwrYlZOAsgl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=442n8lbvz56n

Today's #SJComix365 is "The Legend of Hong Kil Dong: The Robin Hood of Korea" by Anne Sibley O'Brien (published by Charlesbridge, 2008). This is a kids comic, recommended for 9 - 12yo's, but the story is worth learning for readers of any age. This is a classic tale from early 17th Century Korea, when Hong Kil Dong, the son of a powerful minister, is not entitled to a birthright because his mother is a commoner. After studying martial arts, divination, swordplay, the uses of magic, and the wisdom of the I Ching, Hong Kil Dong sets off on a quest for his destiny. He leads a band of men to right the injustices shown to the peasants by some powerful and corrupt merchants, ministers, and monks. Hong Kil Dong can then claim his rightful role and become a wise and just leader. This graphic book captures the drama and pageantry of the Chosun dynasty and pays tribute to the adventure story that became the first novel written in the Korean language. ✨ #comics #graphicnovels #history #koreanhistory #korea #honggildong #hongkildong #childrensbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpXvRuAZC0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7xry4nkice29

Today's #SJComix365 is "Death Threat", a new release from Arsenal Pulp Press, by Vivek Shraya (Author), Ness Lee (Illustrator). In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's responses to them into a vivid, illuminated view, making 'Death Threat' a unique comic that, by its existence, becomes a compelling act of resistance. Through it we can better understand and explore the dangers of online accessibility and the ease with which vitriolic hatred can spread in the digital world. ✨ #deaththreat #comics #graphicnovels #vivekshraya #transphobia #harrassment #graphicmemoir #nessless https://www.instagram.com/p/BwaX0Dwghj6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=127brdykifmn0

Today's #SJComix365 is "The Assignment", a short anthology of "Assigned Male" webcomics by transgender artists and activist Sophie Labelle. It covers the beginning of friendship between two of the comic's main characters, Stephie and Frank, and how they first met. When Stephie gets paired up with a boy she doesn't know for a classroom assignment, she is understandably apprehensive. In Frank's words, "I don't want to be with her, she has the genders!" (a hilarious if problematic placeholder for cooties or some other kid-hysteria). Frank also remarks that he doesn't want anyone to think he's gay because they see Stephie at his house. Later, he insists that this was a joke, but Stephie is hurt. The short narrative shows both of the kids working out their misgivings for each other to other characters, overcoming their fears of being hurt or misunderstood, and becoming friends. It's a heartwarming story, fitting for a time when society is taking a closer look at gender and sexuality, previously reserved for discussions that rarely included or considered the perspectives of kids. ✨ #comics #webcomics #sophielabelle #assignedmale #theassignment #comicsanthology https://www.instagram.com/p/BwPgZksgpnL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12kqcnpkyfwpy

Today's #SJComix365 is "Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City" by Julia Wertz (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017). The lost history of Kim's Video, the complicated and unresolved business of Ray's Pizza, the vintage trash and horse bones that litter the shore of Brooklyn's Bottle Beach, the ludicrous pinball prohibition, Staten Island's secret abandoned boatyard. From bars, bakeries, and bookstores to food carts and street cleaners, this #graphichistory is perhaps one of the best ways to familiarize yourself with NYC's long and complex history. Books like this show us the multitude of ways we can better understand the places we live and visit. ✨ #NYC #Tenements #Towers #trash #NYChistory #juliawertz #cityscapes #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/BwK3gdXA_4T/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vxakmuof29y

Today's #SJComix365 is "Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation" by Michael Keller and Nicolle Rager Fuller. This book easily introduces a new generation of readers to the original text. Including sections about his pioneering research, the book's initial public reception, his correspondence with other leading scientists, as well as the most recent breakthroughs in evolutionary theory. 🌟 #darwin #originofspecies #evolution #evolutionarytheory #comics #graphicnovels https://www.instagram.com/p/BwIeKllgbcR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12dpmzqycj6rr

This comic is only 32 pgs long but it may be the most important thing u can read this year. Today's #SJComix365 is "Trauma is Really Strange" by Steve Haines and Sophie Standing (Singing Dragon, 2015). What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it?This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. With wonderful artwork, TIRS reveals how trauma resolution involves changing the body's physiology & describes techniques that can achieve this, including Trauma Releasing Exercises that allow the body to shake away tension, safely releasing deep muscular patterns of stress and trauma. ✨ #trauma #PTSD #comics #graphicmedicine #graphicscience #psychology #recovery #traumaisreallystrange #singingdragon https://www.instagram.com/p/BwFRdchgnQf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lzix3qe0p6hf

This comic is only 32 pgs long but it may be the most important thing u can read this year. Today's #SJComix365 is "Trauma is Really Strange" by Steve Haines & Sophie Standing (Singing Dragon, 2015). What is trauma? How does it change the way our brains work? And how can we overcome it?This unique comic explains the strange nature of trauma and how it confuses the brain and affects the body. With wonderful artwork, TIRS reveals how trauma resolution involves changing the body's physiology & describes techniques that can achieve this, including Trauma Releasing Exercises that allow the body to shake away tension, safely releasing deep muscular patterns of stress and trauma. ✨ #trauma #PTSD #comics #graphicmedicine #graphicscience #psychology #recovery #traumaisreallystrange #singingdragon https://www.instagram.com/p/BwFKMwGgB3r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lclwp1ksum5p

Today's #SJComix365 is "Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working class Struggle". This work was a true collaboration between artists, activists and scholars, exploring the rich veins of union history in Canada. Including some screenshots of my chapter, "Coal Mountain". ✨ #comics #graphicnovels #graphichistory #workingclasshistory #CdnHistory #comicsscholarship https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDbDI4ga2q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=482gk0clzdwx

Today's #SJComix365 is "APB: Artists Against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology" (Rosarium Publishing, 2015). If your familiarity with “political comics” immediately makes you think of editorial political cartoons, you would think this would be a book full of silly caricatures of cops, but APB is much more special than that. In fact, (and I hope this doesn’t sound too sappy), APB feels a lot more like a series of prayers. Illustrations depict beautiful faces and lives that have been extinguished by police brutality. These sit alongside surrealist visions of a world where police don’t have immunity, where communities can exercise the power they know they have. It is artwork that hits you in your core. Troy Wiggins writing for BookRiot describes every portion of this book as “an attempt to hold our justice system accountable”. It reminds us that the work of police brutality activists is one that is intricately linked to powerful grief and powerful hope for radical transformations. ✨ #comics #graphicnovels #artistsagainstpolicebrutality #policebrutality #abolition https://www.instagram.com/p/BwAAVdRgQO1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e8mtyu361tzn

Today's #SJComix365 is "Good Talk" by Mira Jacob, (One World, 2019). Like many 6yo's, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. As tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, the questions move from innocent / innocuous... to much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love. A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us. Written with humor + vulnerability, this deeply relatable #graphicmemoir is a love letter to the art of conversation—and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions. 🌟 #comics #graphicnovels #goodtalk #artofconversation #mirajacob https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9PUsTAG3D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ylbgmwzvp59a

From the NYT bestselling author of 'The Invention of Nature' is one of the year's most exciting new releases IMO, today's #SJComix365 is "The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt" by Andrea Wulf (Author) and Lillian Melcher ( @pantheon, 2019 ). Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is a well-known scientist + explorer. His most revolutionary idea was a radical vision of nature as a complex + interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. Humboldt predicted human-induced climate change. His theories + ideas were profoundly influenced by a 5yr exploration of South America, which is largely where this #graphicnovel takes place. It will be a great crash course for a noteworthy thinker, one who influenced iconic figures like Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, and John Muir. Can't wait to read it. 🌟 #graphicbiography #graphichistory #comics #nonfiction #climatechange #ecology #scicomm #bolivar #darwin #jefferson #humboldt https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv6_cYLAYhV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16qkltqi1ads1

Today's #SJComix365 is "Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos" by Lucy Knisley (First Second, 2019). Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Kid Gloves follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring figures in medicine and midwifery. 🌟 #comics #graphicnovels #motherhood #kidgloves https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv5HCWAgRy7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5xkmi841h60k

Today's #SJComix365 is Sophie Yanow's "War of Streets & Houses" (Uncivilized Books, 2014), named after General Thomas Bugeaud’s 19th century essay; the first manual for the preparation and conduct of urban warfare. Fun fact, the text is influenced by Baron Haussmann’s famous re-development of Paris and the planning of modern cities! In 2012, Yanow participated in the massive Montreal student strikes. In the midst of protesting crowds and police kettles, the military origins of urban planning suddenly became an undeniable reality. Sophie Yanow’s most ambitious work to date deftly melds the history of urban planning, theories of control with personal experiences of political activism, all with a style of drawing that feels fluid, informal, and effortless, like it's being drawn in real time as these experiences are happening around her. Beautiful comic! 🌟 #comics #graphicnovels #urbanplanning #warofstreetsandhouses #sophieyanow #uncivilizedbooks #montrealstudentstrikes https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv1eLZygreN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rin97dkpfrdf

Today's #SJComix365 is "Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and The Political Science Of The Atomic Bomb" by Jim Ottaviani. It's not every day you see a comic written by someone with a masters degree in nuclear engineering. Jim Ottaviani and GT Labs do great science history comics and 'Fallout' is no exception; it's both an early #graphichistory and scientific crash-course on the bomb, as well as a #graphicbiography of sorts for Oppenheimer and Szilard, who worked on the project together but had very different outlooks. 'Fallout' explores the fundamental politics, science, and moral questions of the nuclear bomb in a stunning comic that can be enjoyed in one sitting. ✨ #comics #graphicnovels #gtlabs #fallout #oppenheimer #szilard #nuclearwar #nuclearhistory #historyofthebomb #atomicwarfare #atomicbomb #atombomb #jimottaviani #comicsfortheclassroom #comicsintheclassroom #interdisciplinarystudies #interdisciplinarycomics #comicsscholarship https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzLaQWgACm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jhvbij9qbwef