Freshwater mussels of the Illinois River.

Yes to this #bookmail post giving us life and liberation - pure floramancy and such appropriate casting for reading Wake. Boogie Down Botanicals, let us know what you think when you finish!!! Reposted from @boogie_down_botanicals Finally arrived! 🔥 We’re digging the graphic-style, excited to dig in with my girls✨ “The Hidden History of Woman-Led Slave Revolts” Pictured with some of my favorite plant allies of Black Liberation: ✨castor bean ✨Spanish needle/Bidens pilosa ✨bitterwood/Quassia . . @sistahscifi . . #graphicnonfiction #sistahscifi #bookmailisthebestmail #drrebeccahall #wakebook #wakegraphicnovel #americanhistory #blackwomen #diasporic #storytelling #📖🌱 // @simonbooks @wakecomicbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CgvPaw5r6JZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Crows: Genius Birds (Science Comics) by Kyla Vandreklugt. First Second, 2020. 9781626728028. 122pp. including a glossary, a short comic on living with crows, and a list of books and articles on crows. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781626728028?partnerid=34778&p_bt

This graphic novel in First Second's Science Comics series grabbed my interest from the beginning -- six crows team up to get Buddy, a very happy and gullible dog, out of his yard, and then use tools to open his dog door to get access to his food. As Buddy and his American crow "friend" head out into the world together, the crow explains the family Corvidae and how relatively big and neuron-dense crows' brains are. As they continue to explore, it explains the superiority of crows with both scientific and real-world examples. It's nicely done and the illustrations (which include some cartoonish medical diagrams and the like) really seem to be part of the conversation.

I have to admit that part of the reason I loved this book so much is personal. Every year, the crows in my neighborhood dive-bomb my wife but not me. (Years ago and miles away, this problem started when she got too close to a fledgling crow in our yard. I already knew that crows can remember individuals and communicate with one another about them, but that's covered nicely in this book, too.) Plus this is a great readalike for Kira Jane Buxton's Hollow Kingdom, a funny, apocalyptic novel set partially in my neighborhood in Seattle, narrated by a very smart-assed crow who is trying to save a very dumb dog from being eaten.

Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle Against the Transatlantic Slave Trade - A Graphic History by #RafeBlaufarb and #LizClarke from @oxunipress, with a goblet of RedVolution red wine from Bota. . . . #readingdrinking #inhumantraffick #books #comics #graphicnovel #graphicnonfiction #graphicscholarship #graphichistory #slavetrade #slavery #nonfiction #academicresearch #oxforduniversitypress #juneteenth #wine #redwine #redvolution #amreading #amdrinking #bookstagram #instabook #instawine #winestagram #readinganddrinking https://www.instagram.com/p/CBo2TZMB46Z/?igshid=13eeec4l2khqm

Author signing #boomerang! @joelchristiangill reviving his caricature skillz as he signs his new #StrangeFruit II out from @fulcrumpublishing. Black history + narrative nonfiction + graphic novel = you need this book in your library! #graphicnovel #joelchristiangill #eisneraward #fulcrumpublishing #alamw18 #authorsofinstagram #booksigning #gimmebooks #graphicnonfiction #nonfiction #librarylove #librariesofinstagram #librarian #librarylife #lifeinbooks #authorgram #allthebooks @ipgbook (at Colorado Convention Center)

It’s alive! Been a long time since I’ve gotten something all the way to the inking stage. #firstdates #comics #sequentialart #wip #creativenonfiction #graphicnonfiction #graphicmemoir https://www.instagram.com/p/B_z-lUqJP1S/?igshid=jandt1vtjoyf

Techspoitation : Graphic novel of an Indian tech worker exploited by a shady labour broker. 

writer and illustrator: Matt Smith 

' Through the sky—la la la— To distant stars Goes Atom, as far his Jets will take him The oh-so-gentle—la la la—child of science With 100,000 horsepower, It's Mighty Atom. "I knew I would never forget how I felt then. I was like a parent anxiously watching his own child appearing on TV for the first time.... When it ended, and the credits appeared on the scene, I thought, Aah, that's one episode down" ' When you waltz around starmarks with a book in hands and cry because of empty pockets in front of your friend, they take a note of it and remember it months later! One of the best birthday gift ever I have had that I have devoured before my actual birthday. Osamu Tezuka is the manga-no-kami-sama, I who grew up watching Astro-Boy and Kimba have loved his storytelling. I have cried when Astro sacrificed himself for humanity. Tezuka wrote over 1500 manga in his sixty years on earth. An professional doctor, pianist by hobby, mangaka by desire and animator by passion. He had an appetite for films and travel. This manga of almost thousand pages redraws his boyhood days, his never ending zeal to draw, his aversion towards war and his personal philosophy of internationalism which his series Phoenix brings out. The manga is narrated by his own character Shunsaku Ban who keeps popping in between panels to explaining the history of Japan and Tezuka's burst of inspiration. Tezuka created for children, boys, girls and adult. He loved science fiction and was a fan of star wars. He was a workaholic, and his influence can be seen most on the Shonen-boy mangakas most. Dragon Ball Z draws on his internationalism and the die hard fan of One Piece that I am, I figured where the Tanuki joke comes from. The best page in the manga is page 191 when Tezuka yells war is over and I'm still alive! Thank you Parashar and Siddharth again! #theosamutezukastory by #toshioban #bookstagram #instabook #reader #bibliophile #booklover #bookworm #bookreview #bookaddict #literature #booknerd #bookish #story #nonfiction #bookphotography #osamutezuka #comics #anime #graphicnovels #graphicnovel #manga #autobiography #mangaka #japaneseliterature #graphicnonfiction #mangalover (at Golf Green)

How to understand your gender by #Queer writer #activist-academic #therapist and consulting relationship #geek @meg_john_barker and #alexiantaffi #gender #queer #graphicnonfiction #comics #history #megjohnbarker #gendertrouble #nonbinary #trans #lgbtqia #lgbtq

Escape the heat and find some solitude in our growing graphic novel section #summer #graphic #graphicnovel #comics #scifi #fantasy #myfavoritethingismonsters #kindred #papergirls #americanvampire #blackpanther #tanehisicoates #octaviabutler #saga #march #johnlewis #graphicnovellove #bookstagram #mrsdalloways #indiebooks #indiebookstore #booklover #seriescomics #superheroes #graphicnonfiction #allages (at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore)

Another book mail post!!! This one highlights our signed copies of Wake: A Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Dr a Rebecca Hall! Reposted from @makeradicalcare ❤️‍🔥🔥🌞 - - - #bookmail #wakegraphicnovel #resist #bookstagram #revolt #resistance #revolution #herstory #blackherstory #blackhistory #americanhistory #womenshistory #buyblack #supportblackbusiness #SistahScifi #blackwomenwriters #americanstudies #slaverevolt #reading #graphicnonfiction #rebeccahall // @simonandschuster @wakecomicbook (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgcE6kRLt_i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children, edited by Kath Shackleton, art by Zane Whittingham, is a collection of six true stories from survivors of the Holocaust who were children when it happened. Each of them was Jewish and ended up in England, but the similarities in their stories end there. There's a variety of perspectives included, such as a child who was removed via Kindertransport, a child hidden in rural France, a child who left before the war started and had to be interned as an enemy alien for being German despite also being Jewish, and a survivor of Auschwitz. The stories are great ways for kids and adults alike to be introduced to the horrors of the Holocaust. I was lukewarm on the illustrations as they portrayed Nazis as being sort of monstrous, and I think that's detrimental to the idea of never allowing this to happen again as if people expect Nazis to be monstrous then they won't be wary of how mundane evil can be. Otherwise, it's a solid book for readers to start learning about the Holocaust from. #holocaust #holocaustremembranceday #bookrecommendations #bookreview #books #reading #booksofinstagram #booksofinsta #bookstagram #jewishliterature #graphicnonfiction #comics #comicbooks #graphicmemoir #graphicnovel #graphicnovels https://www.instagram.com/p/CZQO9pirZRR/?utm_medium=tumblr

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco. Metropolitan Books, 2020. 9781627799034. 272pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781627799034?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Sacco (Footnotes in Gaza, Palestine, Safe Are Gorazde) heads north from Yellow Knife into Canada's Northwest Territories in a borrowed truck with his guide, Shauna. They travel to places that can only be accessed on winter roads when the ground is frozen. There Sacco meets and interviews many of the Dene. ""Dene means 'the People' and in Canada's North the term refers to the related group of First Nations whose culture is rooted in the land."

In Tulit'a, they find a small town of 600 where the oil boom is on pause. Unemployment is high. It's clear there are folks on all sides of the resource extraction issue, and that this community (and others he visits) are dealing with the history of the territory and what was done to their people, from the Catholic Church to the residential schools and the abuse (substance, physical, sexual) that is still rampant. But there are people who remember living a subsistence lifestyle, and others who see what living on the land once meant and what it might mean to do so again.

"Unmooring the indigenous people -- in fact, erasing the essence of their indigeneity -- was long Canada's official policy." And now the Dene are trying to get justice for themselves and their communities. Opinions vary from community to community, and from person to person, on the best way forward. Handouts and government aid seem to have many downsides, but the government is the most reliable employer in many areas. It's clear that many find power in connecting with their ancestors and the way they lived, and in feeling that they have something to offer to their communities both in the present and the future.

As always, Sacco draws himself into his book. One of my favorite parts of an otherwise heavy work of graphic nonfiction is a light moment when he refers to himself as Joe of the North, as he tries to drag a fishing net from beneath a frozen lake. Mostly he's here as a listener and a recorder, helping us get to know the folks he speaks with by drawing and quoting them with a level of care I see in nowhere else. If Sacco took the time to put someone into one of his books they are important; I know they're worth listening to.  (This book, like Sacco's other nonfiction, begs to be read again and again.)

#comics #graphicnonfiction

Great class project with Melissa Weinstein!

Don't they look pretty? @yodapress @captainbijli #indiecomics #graphicnonfiction #graphicanthology #grantaofcomics