PEN America has a section of comics called State of Emergency, and I’m sure you can guess what that refers to. Meg Lemke, Rob Kirby, and MariNaomi curated the section and it includes
Whitney Taylor:
Iasmin Omar Ata
Dylan Edwards
Thi Bui, whose memoir about her family’s journey from Vietnam The Best We Could Do is excellent and comes out from Abrams in March.
Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, DC Comics, Fox and Publishers Weekly. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.