Before the Graphic Memoir: Female Sketchbooks and Visual Chronicles of Love and War

Yale University Professor Katie Trumpener discusses the prehistory of the graphic novel by examining artists, works, and genres ranging from alternative press cartoons to Japanese American internment memoirs to Native American ledger books and contemporary West German graphic memoirs.

For more information, please contact: Lauren Cote, lcote2@wellesley.edu

Generously supported by: the Newhouse Center for the Humanities and the English Department.

Image Credit: Courtesy of the Japanese American National Museum, gift of Miné Okubo Estate, 2007.62.
Image Caption: Miné Okubo, Waiting in lines, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California (1942). Drawing (detail).