“WAKE – The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts” by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martínez – review

I desperately wanted to like this book. The title is great, the cover is stunning, and the topic is perfect for Black History Month. What’s more, I like graphic novels and history and I love learning about slave revolts. But the book didn’t quite do it for me. For one thing, the title is misleading….

“The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky & Jeffrey Wilson. Illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia”

How about this for a hybrid: take an 80-something professor, sit him down for a conversation, and turn it into a graphic novel. It really shouldn’t work, but it does. Noam Chomsky has long been the world’s foremost intellectual, an unrivaled authority on human rights and world affairs. I would say he’s forgotten more than…

“Illegal” by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, illustrated by Giovanni Rigano

“You, who are so-called illegal aliens, must know that no human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?” (Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust…