An empowering read for would-be revolutionaries as much as for ‘old hands.’ Morning StarĮvans startles and inspires with her beautiful symbiosis of graphic and text. It’s a perfect historic complement to the ongoing radicalisation of the Labour Party. The book has an infectious quality and an embracing enthusiasm for revolutionary ideas. The decision to write this work in the graphic novel form was a brilliant one if there is a biography whose multiple dimensions requires more than words to tell it, Rosa Luxembourg’s is such a biography. Instructional in its politics and discussions of economics, Red Rosa is also at turns humorous, romantic, and emotional. The story it tells is compelling, inspirational and fundamentally human. Red Rosa is a wonderfully composed and lively book. Seth Tobocman, author and artist of Disaster and Resistance She is an artist who lives her art and a radical who lives her politics … she can write about revolution, not as a historical object, but as a real, relevant, living thing, because Kate is herself a revolutionary. We need more political cartoonists like Kate Evans. Kate Evans is one of the most original talents in comics I’ve seen in a long time. If the bedrock of this biography is its combination of Marxist theory and historical narrative-including but not limited to Luxemburg’s participation in the international socialist movement, German politics, and the Russian Revolution of 1905-the motherlode is its touching portrayal of a woman who sacrificed her life for her beliefs. Talbot, author of Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes I love the way it incorporates complicated historical details into a moving biographical account. gets her due in a full-length graphic novel biography … Red Rosa fits comfortably in this fall theme of feminist representation in graphic novels and comics. Sharon Rudahl, author and artist of Dangerous Woman Kate Evans deserves our gratitude for telling the tragic tale of this early twentieth-century revolutionary. The perfect book for socialist-curious … What Rosa Luxemburg wrote about and predicted is scarily relevant today. Trina Robbins, author of Pretty in Inkįive stars. Molly Crabapple, artist and author of Drawing BloodĪ story told with verve, humor, and great art. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Living with a Wild God This book is hard to put down and contains a challenge that is impossible to turn away from: We could create a better world-peaceful, egalitarian, even joyful-if we are willing to learn from Red Rosa. A courageous leader of the early twentieth-century socialist movement-a woman who dared to question both Marx and Lenin-Luxemburg was also, as Kate Evans reveals in this brilliant graphic biography, a person of deep passions, ecstatic insights, and ultimately, as fascism emerged from the ruins of World War I-heartbreak of historic dimensions.
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