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Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History

10 best books like Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History (Harvey Pekar): You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive, Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book, Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity, Dignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists, The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution, Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World, A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo, Aya of Yop City, Che

You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
AuthorSeth Tobocman
ISBN1887128352
This collection of Tobocman’s work is truly amazing. I will recommend this to everyone I know. The fragments and stories selected for this book offer an opportunity to consider closely the rhetorical effects of images combined with various samples of print-texts. I think Tobocman’s collage...
Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
AuthorNelson Mandela Foundation
ISBN0393336468
Freedom fighter, fugitive, president of his nation, hero of the world, Nelson Mandela was called a terrorist, forced into hiding, captured, threatened with death, and eventually thrown into jail. But nothing could stop him from fighting to liberate his country from Apartheid. All of this and much...
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
AuthorDan Berger
ISBN1904859410
“Dan Berger represents an emerging generation of radical activist scholars. A meticulously researched and well-referenced study of the Weather Underground. . . . A gripping story, drawing important lessons for the younger generation of activists.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Outlaw...
Dignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists
AuthorJim Ottaviani
ISBN0966010647
This book focuses on six female scientist and while the text is written by Jim Ottaviani, the comics are drawn by female artists. The stories/mini-bios are all quite good and as always I appreciate Ottaviani's careful research, and I love all the art. But there is something that feels unfinished about...
The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution
AuthorLarry Gonick
ISBN0060760044
The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up–to–date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities...
Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
AuthorPaul M. Buhle
ISBN1844675254
A vibrant history in graphic art of the "Wobblies," published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World.

The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first -sit-down strikes...
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman
AuthorSharon Rudahl
ISBN1595580646
The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist.

"You are a terrible child and will grow into a worse woman! You have no respect for your elders or for authority! You will surely end on the gallows as a public menace!"—Emma Goldman's...
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
AuthorJoe Sacco
ISBN1896597602
When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy.

It's dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate.

Award-winning comix-journalist...
Aya of Yop City
AuthorMarguerite Abouet
ISBN1897299419
“[Aya] wittily delves into both the political and the pop during an enchanted era when anything seemed possible.” —Vibe Vixen


The original Drawn & Quarterly volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award nomination and praise for its accessibility...
Che
AuthorSpain Rodriguez
ISBN1844671682
Since his death in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become a universally known revolutionary icon and political figure whose image is among the most recognizable in the world. This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into his story, portraying his struggle through the medium...
Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889
AuthorRick Geary
ISBN1561633089
*Book source ~ Library

From Goodreads:
Rick has researched this book extensively and presents, with his own inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, the jack The Ripper mystery as told through a journal of a fascinated Englishman of the day. Both factual and darkly funny, Geary's personal...
Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
AuthorArt Spiegelman
ISBN0811831795
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he literally embodies the comic book form: the exuberant...
Action Philosophers!: the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust
AuthorFred Van Lente
ISBN0977832937
Imagine Plato as a wrestling superstar of ancient Greece, Nietzsche as the original ubermensch, and Bohidharma as the grand master of kung fu. These are not just great thinkers they also make great comics. Action Philosophers details the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust in hip and...
Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman
AuthorCathy Wilkerson
ISBN1583227717
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy...
Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
AuthorJohn McMillian
ISBN0195319923
How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions...
Pitch Black
AuthorYoume Landowne
ISBN1933693061
On the subway, do ever notice that people are always looking, but they only see what they want to? Things can be sitting right in front of them and still they can’t see it.

That’s your guide Anthony speaking. He’ll show you how he lives in the tunnels underneath the New York City subway system—that...
The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
AuthorJonathan Hennessey
ISBN0809094878
Our leaders swear to uphold it, our military to defend it. It is the blueprint for the shape and function of government itself and what defines Americans as Americans. But how many of us truly know our Constitution?

The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation uses the art of illustrated...
The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single Mom
AuthorKatherine Arnoldi
ISBN0786864206
This is a great little book that I have never been able to find since I bought it for a dollar at a local bookstore. I really hope it hasn't gone out of print, because I want to buy tons of copies to donate to libraries. It's a straightforward story of a 17 year old woman from a working class community and the first...
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
AuthorGreil Marcus
ISBN0374104387
I have previously read 3 books by Marcus, and enjoyed or at least appreciated them--Mystery Train, Invisible Republic, and a collection of his essays on Dylan. The only one I've read in the last 10 years (since I began tracking my reading here) is the collection, for which I began my review thus: "I doubt...
Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story
AuthorFellowship of Reconciliation
Nearly sixty years after its creation, a little-known landmark of comic book history returns! This 16-page comic is a simple but revolutionary account of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which Rosa Parks, Dr. King, and 50,000 others used the power of nonviolence to battle segregation on city buses...
Fire
AuthorBrian Michael Bendis
ISBN1582400717
(W/A) Brian Michael Bendis
YOUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READ THIS BOOK! Loosely based on events in the American intelligence community during the Reagan administration, FIRE tells the unique and powerful story of a young man's virgin journey through the complex world of international...
Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads
AuthorNick Hayes
ISBN1419719459
Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his pal­ette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells the story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912–1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually...
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