Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking - Softcover

Evans, Brad; Wilson, Sean Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178026318X ISBN 13: 9781780263182

Publisher: New Internationalist, 2016

Synopsis

2018 'Independent Publisher Book Awards' winner 

Bringing together established academics and award-winning comic book writers and illustrators, Portraits of Violence illustrates the most compelling ideas and episodes in the critique of violence.Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Paolo Freire, Michel Foucault, Susan Sontag, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, and Giorgio Agamben each have ten pages to tell their story in this innovative graphic title.

Dr. Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist and author from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
Sean Michael Wilson is an acclaimed comic book writer with more than a dozen books published with a variety of US, UK, and Japanese publishers.

Featuring artwork by a diverse range of male and female artists from different countries: Scottish artist Chris Mackenzie, Japanese artists Inko and Michiru Morikawa, US artist Carl Thompson, Vietnamese artist Yen Quach, and English artist Robert Brown.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist and writer, whose work specialises on the problem of violence. The author of some ten books and edited volumes, along with over forty academic and media articles, he currently serves as a senior lecturer at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies, the University of Bristol, UK.

His co-directed movie "Ten Years of Terror" received international acclaim, screening in the Solomon K. Guggenheim museum, New York during September 2011. Brad has recently been a visiting fellow at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, New York (2013-14). He regularly writes for prominent news sources such as The New York Times, LA Review of Books, The Guardian, Independent, World Financial Review, Al Jazeera, TruthOut, Counter-Punch and Social Europe.

Sean Michael Wilson is a graphic novel writer from Scotland. His books are often on themes of history, biography and social issues. He has more than 20 books with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, including: AX:alternative manga ( 'Best ten books of 2010', Publishers Weekly), Parecomic (intro by Noam Chomsky, his first contribution to a graphic novel), Fight the Power! A Visual History of Protest Amongst the English Speaking Peoples' (intro by Tariq Ali) Portraits of Violence, with Dr Brad Evans (intro by Henry Giroux), The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure and The 47 Ronin. In 2016 his book 'The Faceless Ghost' was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Book Awards, and received a medal in the 2016 'Independent Publisher Book Awards'. In 2017, his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese government - he is the first British person to receive this award.

Featuring artwork by a diverse team of male and female artists from various countries: Scottish artist Chris Mackenzie, Japanese artists Inko and Michiru Morikawa, US artist Carl Thompson, Vietnamese artist Yen Quach, and English artist Robert Brown.

Review:

"[If] there's a single strong underlying message running throughout Portraits of Violence, it's one of pedagogical change; of the need to educate future generations to view the world through a critical lens, and to forever question the narrative woven by the media. Portraits of Violence is an extremely timely book, then, and one adapted with both reverence and soul" -Carl Doherty, Shelf Abuse; "I strongly urge you to read this... a compelling and challenging collection that needs to seen by everybody in power or comfortably submitting to it" -Comics Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Internationalist
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 178026318X
• ISBN 13: 9781780263182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Thompson Carl, Brown Robert, Medaglia Mike, Mackenzie Chris