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New Book: The Good Fight by Josh Rosen ’09

The Good Fight by Ted Staunton with art by Josh Rosen released on June 1, 2021. Set in Toronto during the summer of 1933, everyone wants to head to the lake, but a neighborhood association is trying to keep out “undesirables,” and its members patrol wearing silver swastika pins. Sid faces difficult choices as he wrestles with honesty, bigotry, poverty and his role in a gang of pickpockets.

You can join Staunton and Josh in a virtual book launch with The Beguiling on June 24th, 7pm Est, live on Instagram.

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Alum Spotlight: Rebecca Roher

Rebecca Roher ’15 won the Doug Wright Award in Canada for her comic Bird in a Cage (Conundrum Press, 2016), the touching tale of her grandmother after she had an accident that left her with a brain injury, leading to early onset dementia. Rebecca’s most recent project is Birth Control Tales. She collaborated with Dr. Aparna Sridhar, an OBGYN at UCLA, who wanted to create educational apps to explain birth control options visually.

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Using the power of comics to teach teens about the way our government works This Is What Democracy Looks Like, A Graphic Guide To Governance is a 32-page comic book created by The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS). This short comic guide helps to bring democracy back to the hands of the people by explaining what democracy actually means and how the whole thing works. This guide will be a great jumping-off point to learn about our government.

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