Graphic Medicine

Explores Texaco's involvement in the Amazon, as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region's inhabitants, from the perspective of Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo

In this memoir, Katie recounts the encounters the harsh reality of life in the Alberta oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed, and where egalitarian ethos and natural beauty of Canada converges with the exploitation of both the riches of the land and the humanity of the people.

On October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed, including the home of the author. Fies' first-hand account includes environmental insight, as well as the stories of others affected by the disaster

Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to "remove the Indian from the child"; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the Dene Nation; and their uphill efforts to revive a wounded culture