Reading About History While Living Through History

There’s an old curse that goes, “May you live in interesting times.” But the more interesting something is, the more likely it is to become the subject of a graphic novel. And the more historical graphic novels you read, the more you start to notice patterns.

Last year, when I reread Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio after the campus protests against the war in Gaza, I noted similarities with the anti-Vietnam protests that led to multiple fatal shootings in the 1970s. Now that American and Israeli aggression against Iran is spiraling into a wider conflict, books like Read Entire Article