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Review: Feel the Real Cost of Prisons by Paul Buhle

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Feel the Real Cost of Prisons by Paul Buhle The Real Cost of Prisons Comix. Edited by Lois Ahrens, with comic art by Kevin Pyle, Sabrina Jones, and Susan Willmarth. Oakland: PM Press, 96pp, paperback, $12.95. The Real Cost of Prison Comix. This remarkable book is the political proof and artistic expression of what has become a key movement for prisoners in the United States. As a book, it is beautiful and genuinely entertaining in its own right, the veritable launching pad of a new artistic/political press. As an organizing tool, it is perhaps a great deal more. Comic art fans will probably know the names of the artists already. The three are associated, long since, with World War 3 Illustrated, the annual comic of artists committed to struggle against war, ecological devastation, and the gentrification of their own neighborhoods...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 03, 2008 (boomark / email).