Praise for Kent State

“[Backderf’s] expertly crafted chronicle of this defining moment in U.S. history serves as a deeply moving elegy for the victims. Readers may also draw from it sobering parallels to the deep divisions of contemporary times, again dangerously rife with media noise and misinformation muddying the waters.”
Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review

“An incendiary corrective to the myths and misconceptions surrounding these events and a memorial to the lives lost or forever altered that should be required reading for all Americans.”
Library Journal - STARRED review

? “An excellent graphic retelling of a climactic moment in American history . . . Four dead in Ohio, indeed—but Backderf’s vivid, evocative book does a splendid job of keeping their memories alive.
Kirkus reviews, STARRED Review

"Deeply researched and gut-wrenching…”
The New Yorker

About the Author

Derf Backderf is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist whose books include My Friend Dahmer, Trashed, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, and The Dissidents. Before focusing on graphic novels, he created the long-running comic strip The City, published in alternative newspapers nationwide. His work draws on first-hand experience to explore working-class life, history, and overlooked systems through dark humor and narrative storytelling. He lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.

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