A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg
Kate Evans is a cartoonist, artist, and activist. She is the
author of numerous books and zines including 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.
Paul Buhle, formerly a Senior Lecturer at Brown University,
produces radical comics and is a recipient of an Eisner Award, the
comics industry's Oscars. He founded the SDS journal Radical
America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with
Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American
Left. He lives in Madison.
A courageous leader of the early twentieth-century socialist
movement-a woman who dared to question both Marx and
Lenin-Luxemburg was also, as Kate Evans reveals in this brilliant
graphic biography, a person of deep passions, ecstatic insights,
and ultimately, as fascism emerged from the ruins of World War
I-heartbreak of historic dimensions. This book is hard to put down
and contains a challenge that is impossible to turn away from: We
could create a better world-peaceful, egalitarian, even joyful-if
we are willing to learn from Red Rosa.
*Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Living with a Wild God*
I admire it as an artist. I admire it as a writer. A huge
achievement.
*Molly Crabapple, artist and author of Drawing Blood*
A story told with verve, humor, and great art.
*Trina Robbins, author of Pretty in Ink*
Five stars. The perfect book for [the] socialist-curious . What
Rosa Luxemburg wrote about and predicted is scarily relevant
today.
*Comics Bulletin*
Kate Evans deserves our gratitude for telling the tragic tale of
this early twentieth-century revolutionary.
*Sharon Rudahl, author and artist of Dangerous Woman*
[Luxemburg] gets her due in a full-length graphic novel biography .
Red Rosa fits comfortably in this fall theme of feminist
representation in graphic novels and comics.
*BookRiot*
Wonderful. I love the way it incorporates complicated historical
details into a moving biographical account.
*Mary M. Talbot, author of Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes*
If the bedrock of this biography is its combination of Marxist
theory and historical narrative-including but not limited to
Luxemburg's participation in the international socialist movement,
German politics, and the Russian Revolution of 1905-the motherlode
is its touching portrayal of a woman who sacrificed her life for
her beliefs.
*Arts Journal*
It does a fine job of telling [Luxemburg's] story. The prison
scenes are particularly good.
*Observer ("Best Graphic Books of 2015")*
Utterly brilliant. Kate Evans is one of the most original talents
in comics I've seen in a long time.
*Guardian*
We need more political cartoonists like Kate Evans. She is an
artist who lives her art and a radical who lives her politics . she
can write about revolution, not as a historical object, but as a
real, relevant, living thing, because Kate is herself a
revolutionary.
*Seth Tobocman, author and artist of Disaster and
Resistance*
Stunningly good.
*Paul Mason, author of Postcapitalism*
Red Rosa is a wonderfully composed and lively book. The story it
tells is compelling, inspirational and fundamentally human.
Instructional in its politics and discussions of economics, Red
Rosa is also at turns humorous, romantic, and emotional. The
decision to write this work in the graphic novel form was a
brilliant one; if there is a biography whose multiple dimensions
requires more than words to tell it, Rosa Luxembourg's is such a
biography.
*Counterpunch*
The book has an infectious quality and an embracing enthusiasm for
revolutionary ideas. It's a perfect historic complement to the
ongoing radicalisation of the Labour Party. An empowering read for
would-be revolutionaries as much as for 'old hands.'
*Morning Star*
Evans startles and inspires with her beautiful symbiosis of graphic
and text. It is not tragedy that Evans ends with, the tragedy of
Rosa's death at the age of forty-seven and the violence of the next
decades it portended, but rather the inspiration she left to her
comrades and the inspiration she can still bring to those who long
for change.
*Bookslut*
Kate Evans' striking pairing of word and image to tell Luxemburg's
story is so perfect that it seems surprising that no one has
thought of it before.
*The F Word*
If you have ever wanted to learn about Rosa Luxemburg, this book is
the perfect entry point . Kate Evans has made the stirring story of
Rosa Luxemburg's legacy accessible to a new generation of readers.
No matter how powerful the adversaries or steep the challenge,
Luxemburg's passion for social and economic justice remained.
*Beyond Chron*
[Evans's] storytelling is a clever mix of humor, pathos, politics,
and the horrors of war . [a] compelling story of a strong,
independent woman who never deviated from her beliefs.
*Booklist*
If it were a movie, you might call Red Rosa a tour de force, but
that would be short-changing it. Red Rosa is a gripping,
wonderfully illustrated account of Rosa Luxemburg the person, but
more importantly a straightforward and intellectually honest
introduction to her politics and her theoretical contributions. It
embodies everything implied by the phrase 'Marxismus theorie und
praxis.'
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
A stirring and beautiful book . Red Rosa is of more than
biographical or aesthetic interest as an introduction to Rosa
Luxembourg's ideas. Its massive appendix, providing lengthy
quotations from source material for every citation in the comic, is
an education in itself.
*Chicago Tribune*
Luxemburg's journey out of Poland to becoming a leader of the
German Communist uprising certainly contains enough excitement to
fill the pages of a graphic novel. A lively history of Luxemberg's
life and fine blend of Evans' other areas of thematic interests of
feminism, class tensions and womanhood.
*Broadly*
A unique format that is as informed and informative as it is
absolutely absorbing from beginning to end.
*Midwest Book Review*
Revolutionary in her intellect, viewpoints, and sociosexual life,
Luxemburg more than earns her place among women of the past century
whose acts were precedent-shattering.
*Library Journal*
Offers an intimate view of the woman behind the revolutionary
icon.
*Exberliner Magazine*
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