MICROCOSM PUBLISHING
SIX DAYS IN CINCINNATI GN
(W) Dan Mendez Moore (A) Dan Mendez Moore (CA) Dan Mendez Moore
The graphic history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants. This was the first major uprising of the 21st Century, matched only the LA riots a decade before and the protests in Ferguson over a decade later. Mendez Moore's comics journalism account sensitively captures a fiery moment in U.S. history through interviews with protesters, community leaders, bystanders, and a frustrated looter. is an all-American story of systemic racism and the power of popular movements, more relevant today than ever before.
SOVIET DAUGHTER GN
(W) Julia Alekseyeva (A) Julia Alekseyeva (CA) Julia Alekseyeva
provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and spirit on her American great-granddaughter. Julia's great-grandmother Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read and worked as a secretary for the NKVD (which became the KGB) and as a lieutenant for the Red Army. Interwoven with Lola's history we find Julia's own struggles of coming of age in an immigrant family in Chicago, and her political awakening in the midst of the radical politics of the turn of the millennium.