APRIL FOOL'S BOOKS; Three coming releases for the disenfranchised

From: Santa Fe Reporter | Date: March 30, 2005| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

WOBBLIES! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD

This year is the 100th anniversary of the formation of the IWW and historian Paul Buhle and illustrator Nicole Shulman are celebrating with this graphic novel-style chronicle of progressive labor. With a host of sympathetic writers and illustrators in collaboration, the book shifts graphic and storytelling styles with each short chapter, a technique that keeps alive the turns of a slightly self-indulgent history. But if...

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