The comic book can lampoon the powerful, illustrate ideas, and preserve the history of activists and popular struggle. R. Sikoryak’s Declaration, Illustrated remixes pop icons to make an illuminated, accessible edition of the Declaration of Independence, inviting us to question the contradictions and unfinished business of our country’s values. Angélique Roché, through deep community research into generations of Black activism, preserves the story of the fight for federal recognition of Juneteenth as a holiday in First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth. Jarrett Dapier’s Wake Now in the Fire documents high school students in Chicago who resisted a district-wide ban on the award-winning graphic novel Persepolis. Join these three authors’ discussion of what a comic can do to defend democracy.
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