Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography, Paperback/Noah Van Sciver

Description A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs Dynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party to federal and state office across the United States by the 1920s. Imprisoned for speaking out against World War I, Debs ran for president from prison on the Socialist Party ticket, receiving over 1 million votes. Debs's life is a story of labor battles in industrializing America, of a fighting socialist politics grown directly out of the Midwest heartland, and of a distinctly American vision of socialism. About the Author Noah Van Sciver is an Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist. His work has appeared in SpongeBob Comics , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , and The Best American Comics . Van Sciver is a regular contributor to MAD Magazine and has created seven graphic novels. Paul Buhle , formerly a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, produces radical comics. He found¬ed the journal Radical America and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left . Steve Max , a founding member of Students for Democratic Society, has been an enduring socialist activist in the Midwest Academy, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the Reform Democratic clubs of New York. Dave Nance is a retired public interest lawyer, a musician, and a scriptwriter for nonfiction graphic novels.