Tuesday, December 12 at 4 pm ET
Mark your calendars for our subsequent PRINT Guide Membership. Artist and illustrator Edel Rodriguez, creator of over 200 journal covers for publications akin to The New Yorker, TIME, Newsweek, and Der Spiegel, will talk about his newest e book with Debbie Millman and Steven Heller.
Rodriguez’s work is singular, putting, and infrequently controversial and his graphic memoir, Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey, is a shocking instance. Rodriguez illustrates the story of his childhood in Cuba and his household’s resolution in 1980 to hitch a hazardous flotilla of refugees, the Mariel boatlift. He makes use of his personal experiences to seize what it’s wish to develop up below an authoritarian authorities and sound an alarm for the longer term.
By means of vivid, stirring artwork, Worm tells a narrative of a Chilly Warfare boyhood, a household’s exile, and their tenacious eager for these they left behind. It additionally recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist who, witnessing America’s flip from democracy to extremism, struggles to distinguish his adoptive nation from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez finally celebrates the maligned and neglected immigrants who guard and invigorate American freedom.
Don’t miss this thrilling discuss on Tuesday, December 12 at 4 PM ET! Register for the livestream dialogue and purchase Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez.
Banner picture: illustration from Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey. © Edel Rodriguez
