Threads: From the Refugee Crisis
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (797 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01LZ3GYBT |
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| Number of Pages | : | 563 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee dramaIn the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. Combining the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling, Evans has produced this unforgettable book, filled with poignant images—by turns shocking, infuriating, wry, and heartbreaking.Accompanying the story of Kate’s time spent among the refugees—the insights acquired and the lives recounted—is the harsh counterpoint of prejudice and scapegoating arising from the political right. Evans’s creativity and passion as an artist, activist, and mother shine through.. Threads addresses one of the
She was awarded the John C. Laurence Award in 2016. . Kate Evans is a cartoonist, artist, and activist. She is the author of numerous books and zines, including Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg; Bump: How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby; and Funny Weather: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know about Climate Chang
"Intensely moving sketchbook documentary" according to Orion. Kate Evans is a British volunteer at a refugee camp called "The Jungle" in Calais, France. She is an artist. Besides helping with donations and inventory, and she spent time drawing the people she met. It was a brilliant thing to do, because these people can't be photographed. If they are identified in the Jungle, it will ruin their chance of moving on to somewhere else. Without pictures, people don't know what refugees are really like. Kate Evans has ta. Bryan Newman said A Must Read for our Times. The very first Graphic Novel that I read was Joe Sacco's Palestine. It was suggested to me and I was a little jaded about reading a "comic book." But I was struck about how moving it was. Something about that delivery made it a personally involving and moving. It made Joe's experiences in Palestine seem intimate and real. This book did exactly the same thing. It took a very abstract news item that I read a few times become a very personalized, very real . Hope in the Darkness I'm going to admit outright I had no idea about what has been occurring in Calais in regard to the refugees. I know they're out there, but I didn't know anything about their living conditions or what they went through just to get out of their country. I just knew they existed. So, in regard to shining a light on some of what's happened in France and the struggles these people have undergone, I came into Threads as a blank slate. Evans does well to not ma
Using her talents as an artist to draw portraits of the camp’s inhabitants, Evans gets to know some of them and their stories … Threads has an agenda, but it’s an important one, and Evans’ account of the refugee crisis is moving nonetheless.” —Eva Volin, Booklist. “Through Kate Evans’s firsthand report from the Calais Jungle we meet the refugees, get a vivid look at their living conditions, and witness the impressive resourcefulness of the volunteer operation that sprang up to help. Which makes visual-oriented journalism, like this ‘comics journalism’ so powerful: we ‘see’ the people Evans saw and met.” —John Yohe, Comics Bulletin “This colorful, large