A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel at a European epicentre of the refugee crisis. Veteran political cartoonist Kate Evans released this masterpiece through @versobooks in 2017. Over the past decade, a city within a city arose in the French port town of Calais, famous historically for the production of lace. This new town, known as “the Jungle”, was home to thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow, to get to the UK. By 2018, I feel as though we all must know what refugee camps look like: they are people living for indefinite periods of time in makeshift “temporary” housing like tents and shipping containers. Toilets are scarce and trash is plentiful, as are rats and sickness. People make due with what they have, and Evans captures both the inhuman conditions and humanity of the camp’s reluctant residents. Contrasting this to the message of France’s increasingly belligerent far-right, who take every opportunity to blame the refugees for every conceivable problem, from high unemployment to gas prices, and you can feel the political temperature rising. ‘Threads’ addresses one of the most pressing issues of modern times to make a compelling case, through intimate evidence, for the compassionate treatment of refugees and the free movement of peoples. Evans’s creativity and passion as an artist, activist, and mother shine through in this volume - it should be required reading anywhere we are talking about migration. #sjcomix365 #migrants #refugees #calais #kateevans #migration #migrationcrisis #nooneisillegal #comixreportage #comicsjournalism https://www.instagram.com/p/BsdrM8nnh4o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t96yycsto5i1
