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Sophie Yanow, an American artist, documents the 2012 Quebec student strike in Montreal through a vivid, autobiographical comic book. The brutal police response and its violent tactics inspire her to examine how urban design and planning echo military strategies. Drawing parallels between Marshal Bugeaud’s tactics in Algeria, Haussmann’s reimagining of Paris, and patterns of repression in the New World, Yanow blends scholarly insight with personal experience, creating an ambitious and poetic cartoon memoir.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Memoir
Authors: Sophie Yanow
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