The 9/11 Report by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón

January 3, 2012 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Hill and Wang, 2006. 133 pgs. Library copy. My Middle East politics professor recommend those of us interested in US/Middle East relations read the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (published as The 9/11 Commission Report). At over 500 pages I am not likely to pick it up anytime soon. I was intrigued, however, to find that Jacobson and Colón, who wrote the graphic biography of Anne Frank, adapted the […]

Categories: 2012 Reads, Comics, Middle East, New York, Nonfiction, North America, United States • Tags: Ernie Colón, Sid Jacobson

Anne Frank by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón

December 29, 2011 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Hill and Wang, 2010. 160 pgs. Library copy. Don’t make the same mistake I did; this is not the graphic version of Frank’s diary. Rather the book is a graphic biography starting with her father, Otto, serving in World War II and ending with Otto’s death in Switzerland in 1980. When the book does follow along with the diary, it steps back to provide the broader historical context of what was occurring outside the annex. The illustrations […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Comics, Europe, Genocide, Holocaust, Nonfiction • Tags: Anne Frank, Ernie Colón, Sid Jacobson