Stitching Freedom Ben Haggarty and Vera Brosgol

and Vera Brosgol

told in a series of easy-to-absorb pictorial biographies of fifty great enchanters and complemented by a variety of picture stories depicting events ranging from the Palaeolithic origins of art

And Nimona is a protagonist to both love and fear

and numerous comics and illustrations for magazines ranging from the New Yorker to Mother Jones and the Comics Journal

this moody and ravishing graphic novel takes the form of a sketchbook diary

Stitching Freedom Ben Haggarty and Vera BrosgolBy Isabella Rosner. Illustrated by Takako Copeland. Published by Common Threads Press. Softcover, 72 pages, Text with Colour Illustrations, 2024. For centuries, people have stitched in good times and in bad, finding strength in the needle moving in and out of fabric. Stitching Freedomexplores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals those who have embroidered to distract, to reflect or to calm. From Mary, Queen of Scots to Lorina