In 2010, Sarah Glidden, a young American cartoonist, went on a two-month, Kickstarter-funded trip to Turkey, Iraq and Syria with two friends from a nonprofit journalism collective called the Seattle Globalist. Meanwhile, there was the issue of Dan O’Brien, the Iraq veteran (and now university student) they’d invited to come with them. The Globalist journalists, Sarah Stuteville and Alex Stonehill, hoped to make his return the subject of a feature. Facebook Twitter Pinterest An extract from Sarah Glidden’s Rolling Blackouts: ‘about as serious and careful as a comic can possibly be’. Photograph: Sarah Glidden/Drawn & QuarterlySix years later, these things, not to mention her own thoughts and feelings about them, form the intricate narrative of Glidden’s provocative new comic book.

Source: The Guardian October 02, 2016 08:26 UTC