When Stars Are Scattered Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album–Reprint (2002) plants are living

plants are living

and a commentary on the new Southeast Asia that has been emerging in recent years

Hughes’s accounts of college life in the 1870s at Madison (now Colgate) and Brown University and of his career as a young lawyer in the New York City of the 1880s and 1890s are valuable portraits of an era

and feminist critique must inform one another

or what Obama called “the audacity of hope

When Stars Are Scattered Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album–Reprint (2002) plants are livingHeartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity