Identity

Celebrating Personal and Historical Legacies

posted on Jul 28, 2021

Joel Christian Gill is a cartoonist, historian, and storyteller who stresses the importance of building connections with readers through his self-referential and historical graphic novels. They emphasize the need for empathy, understanding, compassion, and overcoming difficult circumstances. In all of Gill’s graphic novels, there is an overriding sense that these are not simple stories, but significant histories of the Black experience in America.

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