Diario de Oaxaca A Sketchbook Journal of Two Years in Mexico

Painting a vivid, personal portrait of social and political upheaval in Oaxaca, Mexico, this unique memoir employs comics, bilingual essays, photos, and sketches to chronicle the events that unfolded around a teachers' strike and led to a seven-month siege. When award-winning cartoonist Peter Kuper and his family moved to the 16th-century colonial town of Oaxaca in 2006, they planned to spend a quiet year or two enjoying a different culture and taking a break from the U.S. political climate under the Bush administration. What they hadn't counted on was landing in the epicenter of Mexico's biggest political struggle in recent years. Timely and compelling, this extraordinary firsthand account presents a distinct artistic vision of Oaxacan life, from explorations of the beauty of the environment to graphic portrayals of the fight between strikers and government troops that left more than 20 people dead, including American journalist Brad Will. This expanded paperback edition includes 32 pages of new material.

Peter Kuper is a cofounder and editorial board member of World War 3 Illustrated. He is best known for drawing Mad magazine's Spy vs. Spy comic and has also illustrated for Newsweek and Time magazine. He is the author of the Eisner Award-winning graphic novel Ruins as well as Drawn to New York and The System. Martín Solares is the author of the novel The Black Minutes, which was a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos, the Antonin Artaud, and the Bibliothèque des Littératures Policières Prizes.