Spotlight: Comic on K-12 Homelessness

Our latest Spotlight on projects and people within the Graphic Medicine international community focuses on a new research-based comic exploring homelessness among K-12 students.

Uprooted: Voices of Student Homelessness (2024) is a recent collaboration between academics at multiple institutions and artist Ashley Robin Franklin, based on many years of research with families experiencing homelessness.

This 16-page comic is available for free download at its website, where print copies can also be requested.

Cover illustration for Uprooted graphic novel, featuring a drawing of an empty classroom — Art by Ashley Robin Franklin

Here’s the official description of the story:

For many, homelessness may evoke images of single, adult men living on the streets. But beneath the surface of these narrow portrayals lie the plight of over a million K-12 students whose lives have been uprooted by homelessness – like Jackie, Angel, Ben and Kayla – and so many others who remain unseen. These students’ lived experiences are diverse, and they spend their nights in many different settings. The intertwined stories told here foreground the realities of many students who experience homelessness in U.S. schools.

Uprooted website: https://smu-uprooted.squarespace.com/
Artist Ashley Robin Franklin can be found on Instagram at @arfranklinstein
Project Manager/Editor/Book Designer Kacy McKinney can be found on Instagram @kacy.mckinney

Spotlight: Comic on K-12 Homelessness

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