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Tags: Cartoon Studies, cartoonist studio prize, Graphic Novel, Keren Katz, Leaving Richard's Valley, Michael DeForge, Secret Acres, Slate Prize, The Academic Hour, Web Comic, winner
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Sasha Velour (’13) is the most recent winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, season 9! And we all send her the biggest congratulations! Her thesis project back in 2013, Stonewall, is a graphic novel about the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York, and the patrons and other sympathizer rioted in a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations. Considered a turning in the history of LGBT rights, Sasha uses multiple protagonists in a variety of historical styles to navigate the complicated and elusive story.
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