by Matt Peters Content advisory: Strong language and brief depictions of criminal violence and traumatic injuries In Shadow Doctor, writer Peter Calloway and artist Georges Jeanty tell the story of an early-career doctor in the 1930s whose entry into the medical profession took a perilous detour. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, the graphic novel follows the early life of Peter Calloway’s real-life grandfather, Dr. Nathaniel Calloway. Dr. Calloway was a Black physician who was steered into a world of underground clinical care, serving one of Chicago’s most notorious gangs. Running a secret clinic in a downtown apartment, Dr. Calloway… Read More
Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches
by Jane Burns Lebanon is Burning and Other Dispatches is unlike any other graphic novel that I have read. Yazan Al Saddi is the author of the 14 dispatches (stories) which are coupled with seven different comic artists’ renditions of the events covered in the story. Some artists contribute to more than one dispatch. This approach of having a different artist draw in a different format adds to complexity and engagement which allows the reader to fully experience this work from multiple perspectives. In the acknowledgements section Al Saddi sets the tone of the work with a credit to Fadi… Read More