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Outside the Lines: A Graphic Novel Book Club

Banned Book Club and Save it for Later

This month's titles: Banned Book Club and Save it for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood

Outside the Lines is a graphic novel book club that focuses on graphic novels by or featuring: BIPOC, Women, LGBTQ+, and other religious and ethnic minorities. Recommended for grades 9+
This month we will be discussing Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada and Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood by Nate Powell. Please register and provide your email address and a Zoom link will be sent out before the meeting. 

"When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family’s restaurant. But literature class would prove to be just the start of a massive turning point, still focused on reading but with life-or-death stakes she never could have imagined. In Banned Book Club, Hyun Sook shares a dramatic true story of political division, fear-mongering, anti-intellectualism, the death of democratic institutions, and the relentless rebellion of reading."

"In seven interwoven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he calls “necessary protest.” Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is Powell’s reflection on witnessing the collapse of discourse in real time while drawing the award-winning trilogy March, written by Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, this generation’s preeminent historical account of nonviolent revolution in the civil rights movement. Powell highlights both the danger of normalized paramilitary presence symbols in consumer pop culture, and the roles we play individually as we interact with our communities, families, and society at large."

This month we are happy to be joined by the author's Ryan Estrada and Nate Powell for our meeting!

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