Threads

Kate Evans is a cartoonist, artist, and activist. She is the author of numerous books and zines, including Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg; Bump: How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby; and Funny Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know about Climate Change but Probably Should Find Out. She was awarded the John C. Laurence Award in 2016.

"Through Kate Evans's firsthand report from the Calais Jungle we meet the refugees, get a vivid look at their living conditions, and witness the impressive resourcefulness of the volunteer operation that sprang up to help. Evans transforms the human 'flood' into shimmering droplets as she works and eats with the refugees, getting to know them as individuals, forging intimate connections while sketching their portraits. Evans both captures the wrenching reality of a seemingly intractable problem and makes an eloquent argument for its solution: open borders."
-Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother? and Fun Home

"It's impossible to read Threads without feeling an emotional response, from outrage to tenderness to deep frustration."
-James Yeh, Vice

"Threads is helpful, and even necessary: as existentialists like Camus and Sartre pointed out, we really feel compassion and empathy when we see the suffering of others. Which makes visual-oriented journalism, like this 'comics journalism' so powerful: we 'see' the people Evans saw and met."
-John Yohe, Comics Bulletin

"This colorful, large format graphic novel, which Verso is publishing in June, takes readers into the heart of the jungle; the troubled, overcrowded refugee camp in Calais, France, that was home to many African and Middle Eastern refugees until it was evacuated in 2016. British cartoon-artist Kate Evans fashions a moving, visceral record of the families and conversations she witnessed there, which she juxtaposes with images of anti-immigrant rhetoric displayed on cell phones."
-Eleanor Sheehan, PopSugar

"A moving first-person account of a volunteer in the refugee camp at Calais, France."
-Publishers Weekly

"[Threads] focuses on a specific place and individual experiences, but they form a universal composite of suffering that has been met with varying degrees of sympathy, panic and fatigue from 'host' societies in Europe and North America ... Evans challenges the idea of where we