Inhuman Traffick

Inhuman Traffick by Rafe Blaufarb is the third graphic history I've illustrated for Oxford University Press.

The book tells the story of the slave ship Neirsée and its passengers, crew and human 'cargo', and through it the history of the 19th century transatlantic slave trade, the naval and political fight against the slavers, and the personal tragedies caused by the trade. Read more about the book at the OUP website, and look inside at Amazon.

Cover and interior art from
Inhuman Traffick
The International Struggle against
the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History
Publication Date - September 2014
ISBN: 9780199334070
240 pages
Artwork copyright Oxford University Press

Abina wins American Historical Association award

Abina and the Important Men has been awarded the James Harvey Robinson Prize by the American Historical Association. Read more about the prize here: http://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes/james-harvey-robinson-prize

Mendoza reviewed

The Los Angeles Review of Books has reviewed Ronald Schechter's Mendoza the Jew, and they've done something very special with the presentation of the review! Go and have a look at it here.

OUP Blog #2

Ronald Schechter's post about writing Mendoza the Jew, in which he discusses cultural attitudes toward comic books and graphic novels and the role of narrative in history, is up now on the OUP blog .

OUP Blog

I was invited to write a post about the process of illustrating a graphic history for the Oxford University Press blog, in connection with Ronald Schechter's book, Mendoza the Jew. It can be read here.