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Drawn to Berlin comic workshops in refugee shelters and other stories from a new Europe

Drawn to Berlin comic workshops in refugee shelters and other stories from a new Europe

Graphic Novel 2018

All Fitzgerald's students are among the record-breaking number of people who are seeking asylum in a worldwide crisis on a scale not seen since WWII, fleeing from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. They draw images of experienced violence and careful optimism: rafts and tanks, flowers and the Eiffel Tower. In her decade in Germany, Fitzgerald experiences the highs of the creatively hopeful, along with the deep depression of the disillusion...