Stories tagged non-fiction

Alum Spotlight: Rebecca Roher

Rebecca Roher ’15 won the Doug Wright Award in Canada for her comic Bird in a Cage (Conundrum Press, 2016), the touching tale of her grandmother after she had an accident that left her with a brain injury, leading to early onset dementia. Rebecca’s most recent project is Birth Control Tales. She collaborated with Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an OBGYN at UCLA, who wanted to create educational apps to explain birth control options visually.

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Alum Spotlight: Josh Kramer

 

Josh Kramer ’11 has been continuing his amazing work on nonfiction comics. He publishes comics at The Nib, including “Is the California Condor the Endangered Species Act’s Last Success Story?” Here, he looks at the possible drastic changes to the Endangered Species Act. Josh uses the success of the California Condor repopulation, one of the first species included in the protection list, as a lens to dissect the problems with the potential changes.

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