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1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike
by Graphic History Collective, David Lester
This should really not be a graphic novel. A graphic novel is supposed to tell a a story. But this one is severely lacking. If there were not the preface and Introduction sections of this book (which read like a boring history textbook) the reader would have no real idea of what is going on, or why it was so important to get it’s own graphic novel. Don’t get me wrong, the finished illustrations are well done, but it feels too much like a yearbook; here's a guy and his name, here is a time and a shot, here is a turned over trolley. But very little reasoning. This book tries so hard to be March but the collective didn’t look at what made March so successful. It had a story. A beginning, a middle, and an end. It didn’t need to give a textbook lecture to get its story across to the readers.