Reimagining Everything (Wayne State University Press, 2026)

This inspiring graphic biography spans a century of American radicalism, from the great depression to the Occupy movement. Where others see blight and ruin, Grace Lee Boggs sees fertile ground for transformative growth. A child of enterprising Chinese immigrants, Grace Lee earns an ivy league education, only to confront the barriers of racism. Over her 100 years, she embraces the labor movement, black power, and local community building, writing, organizing, and training hundreds of activists. She witnesses and responds to the great depression, the peak of American industry, and its gradual decline. Her marriage to revolutionary Black auto worker Jimmy Boggs puts her at the intersection of labor and race in America. Their constant revision of the theory and practice of revolution reflects the conviction that we must change not only state power, but our humanity and relationships. Resisting the triple evils of racism, materialism, and militarism, Grace never loses faith in reimagining ourselves and our communities, beginning at her doorstep in post-industrial Detroit.

Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist’s Encounter with Margaret Sanger (Counterpoint / Soft Skull Press, 2016)

Working class nurse. Mother of three. Labor organizer. Margaret Sanger, best known as the pioneer of birth control, was revolutionary in more ways than one. In Sabrina Jones’s graphic novel Our Lady of Birth Control, the author illustrates the incredible life of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), framing the biography with her personal experiences of coming of age at the height of the sexual revolution.

Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling with Marc Mauer (The New Press, 2013)

More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarceration in the world. How did this happen? As the former director of The Sentencing Project, Marc Mauer has long been one of the country’s foremost experts uncovering the answer to this question.

Now, Sabrina Jones has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update his seminal work Race to Incarcerate into a vivid and compelling comics narrative. Jones’s dramatic artwork adds passion to the complex story of the penal system’s shift from rehabilitation to punishment and the ensuing four decades of prison expansion, its interplay with the devastating “War on Drugs, ” and its corrosive effect on generations of Americans.

With a preface by Mauer and a foreword by The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander, Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling elegantly interweaves personal stories and sobering facts to present a compelling argument about mass incarceration’s tragic impact on communities of color. If current trends continue, one in every three Black males and one in every six Latino males born today can expect to face time in prison. The race to incarcerate is not only a failed social policy, but also one that prevents a just, diverse society from flourishing.

Praise

“Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands.” —Michelle Alexander

Isadora Duncan: A Graphic Biography (Farrar Straus & Giroux / Hill & Wang, 2008)

Myth and controversy still swirl around the dramatic figure of Isadora Duncan. The pioneering modern dancer emerged from provincial nineteenth-century America to captivate the cultural capitals of Europe, reinvent dance as a fine art, and leave a trail of scandals in her wake. From her unconventional California girlhood to her tragic death on the French Riviera fifty years later, Duncan's journey was an uncompromising quest for truth, beauty, and freedom.

Here Duncan's art and ideas come vividly to life. Each page is a unique dance of words and images, reflecting Duncan's courage, passion, and idealism in a way sure to inspire another generation of admirers.