DISSIDENTS

From the award winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Kent State comes a timely graphic novel about racism violence and political turmoil in the early 20th century when a handful of cartoonists and journalists pushed back against a corrupt administration to defend the rights of free speech WE VE BEEN HERE BEFORE BUT WE FORGOT It s 1916 President Woodrow Wilson a deeply divisive authoritarian who is also a white supremacist with open contempt for constitutional rights sits in the Oval Office Racial tensions unprecedented economic inequality a groundswell of support for unionization and the rise of both a reactionary far right militia and a growing radical opposition shake the very foundations of American society A pandemic is two years away And the 1900s have only just gotten started AMERICA IS A COUNTRY ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS The Dissidents follows a group of real and influential political cartoonists who worked for the magazine The Masses Art Young Boardman Robinson Cornelia Barns and others dominant in their day but now forgotten as well as a fictional young German immigrant from Cleveland Joe Hertle who has come to New York to make his name They rub elbows with the great opposition voices of the day such as journalists Max Eastman and J