Sep 6, 2019
An American classic has been back in the news recently. Now is the time to find out why. New from UW Press, editors Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung, John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy.
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An American classic has been back in the news recently. Now is the time to find out why. New from UW Press, editors Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, and Floyd Cheung, John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy.
Started (and finished) this morning: WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration written by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura; artwork by Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki
The internment of Japanese Americans has been well documented in graphic novels recently, including George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy and Kiku Hughes’ Displacement. Now a new graphic novel from Seattle-based Chin Music Press takes a step further into that history with We Hereby Refuse, an accounts of three Japanese Americans who actively resisted the internment: Jim Akutsu, Hiroshi Kashiwagi and Mitsuye Endo. Writers Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura and artists Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki are the creative team on the book, which covers a piece of this history that the other books only hint at.
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