Ginseng Roots (2019 Uncivilized Comics) comic books 2017-2019
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Issue #1
Published Jul 2019 by Uncivilized Comics.$9.00
Story, Art and Cover by Craig Thompson. From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (the author of Blankets) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms. Weeding and harvesting ginseng-a medicinal herb that fetched huge profits in China-funded Craig's youthful obsession with comic books. Now, for the first time in his career, Thompson is working in serial form, in a bimonthly comic book series. Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, all comic book, Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300 year long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers. 6 inch x 9 inch, 32 pages, full color. Cover price $5.00.
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Issue #2
Published Nov 2019 by Uncivilized Comics.$5.60
$5.60
Story, Art and Cover by Craig Thompson. Craig Thompson returns home, into the heart of rural Wisconsin, to the former global capital of ginseng cultivation. We meet his sister Sarah who was excluded from Blankets, and the Ginseng farmers who employed Craig and his brother as children. Craig explores the problems with autobiography, the nature of memory, and the editing that necessarily follows. Ginseng Roots is a masterful mix of personal history set against a background of global trade, corporate agriculture, and climate change. 6 inch x 9 inch, 32 pages, full color. Cover price $5.00.
