Barry Eisler (former CIA Directorate of Operations and best-selling spy novelist)
“I couldn’t put it down. It reads like a thriller. Take my word for it, because I write thrillers for a living. (But) this isn’t fiction.”
— Commonwealth Club, November 7, 2017
Kirkus Reviews
"A graphic indictment of American surveillance and drone malfeasance. The narrative effectively blends first-person prose with journalistic reporting and presents a complex story with cohesion. An accessible book that sounds the alarm on how modern technology can be used by the government against its citizenry."
— Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2017
ComicsBeat
"Verax is an important part of a conversation that all Americans need to be having ... about just how ineffective drones are, and the heroism of ordinary people, including many young soldiers, who have spoken out for what is right and to inform the public of the truth. The book manages to get at the heart of these issues in a very thoughtful way."
— Alex Dueben, ComicsBeat, October 31, 2017
Publisher's Weekly
“A pointed examination of the controversies and ethical quandaries of drone warfare and the surveillance state.”
— Publisher's Weekly, August 28, 2017
Book List
"Altogether, the book is chockablock with events and information, exposition and explanation—a fine first book on a subject that couldn’t be more important."
— Ray Olson, Book List, September 05, 2017
School Library Journal
"When investigative journalist Chatterjee began to research how intelligence agencies collect, use, and misuse data from citizens, he decided to show his work—literally. It ... provides an immediacy that prose alone can’t."
— Brigid Alverson, School Library Journal, August 1, 2017
Publisher's Weekly
“A a deft example of using innovative visual design to make a complex information-laden report easier to understand.”
— Brigid Alverson, Publisher's Weekly, November 3, 2017
Podcasts & Radio Interviews
Interview with authors on KQED Forum with Michael Krasny, November 9, 2017
Interview with authors at the Commonwealth Club with Barry Eisler, November 7, 2017
Interview with authors on KALW Your Call with Rose Aguilar, November 7, 2017
Interview with authors on Project Censored with Mickey Huff, November 3, 2017
Interview with authors on Rising Up Radio with Sonali Kolhatkar, November 14, 2017
More Coverage
Around the World with Graphic Novels at BookExpo 2017
(Brigid Alverson, Publishers Weekly, June 05, 2017)
BookExpo 2017: Graphic Novels Heat Up at Javits
(Rich Shivener, Publishers Weekly, June 01, 2017)
Holt, Seven Stories Sign Comics Works on Snowden, NSA
(Calvin Reid and Clare Swanson, Publishers Weekly, August 29, 2014)
Praise for Iraq Inc. (Pratap Chatterjee)
“Iraq Inc. will introduce to you the entrepreneurs who really understand war profiteering and the price the rest of us will have to pay.”
— Matt Swibel, Forbes Magazine
“… comprehensive evidence of dereliction and venality … (t)here’s the raw material here for a Michael Moore film or a collaboration between David Hare and the ghost of Brecht”
— Ian Pindar, The Guardian (UK)
Praise for Halliburton’s Army (Pratap Chatterjee)
“A sordid tale of politics and profiteering, courtesy of the Bush administration and a compliant military. Chatterjee documents the malfeasance down to the penny … A report that deserves many readers, about matters that deserve many indictments.”
— Kirkus Reviews
‘In a calm and measured but insistent voice, Chatterjee charts the pattern of wrongdoing built into KBR from its origins in the late Thirties… If the dust finally does settle over Iraq, while moving onto Afghanistan, the new secretary of state may well find many more questions to ask about the company’s conduct in recent years. Anyone reading this important book will be demanding answers too.’
— Anthony Holden, The Daily Telegraph (UK)
“(S)obering and incisive … (f)or military officers and American citizens alike, Chatterjee’s exposé describes the sordid side of the transformation forced on the defense establishment by the administration of George W. Bush”
— Lieutenant Colonel Prisco R. Hernández, “Military Review” (The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army) Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Praise for Zahra’s Paradise* (Khalil Bendib)
“Khalil’s brilliant and nuanced illustrations … manage to convey a range of emotions in a feature as simple as Mrs. Alavi’s eyebrows.”
— New York Times
“Khalil’s art is a mix of confident caricature, clean cartoony panels, and montage that’s remarkably adept at capturing all kinds of action and emotion”
— Publishers Weekly
“Like Maus and Persepolis, Zahra’s Paradise puts a human face on a time of grief and unrest.”
— Glen Weldon, National Public Radio
“A heartbreaking story,.. a celebration of the will to live.”
— Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
“Gorgeous and compelling.”
— Reza Aslan, author of The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Praise for Mission Accomplished (Khalil Bendib)
“Khalil Bendib, with a ingenious few strokes of his pen, gets to the heart of the issues of our time. His cartoons are in the greatest tradition of American political humor, with that combination of wit and intelligence so needed in the struggle for justice.”
— Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States
“Bendib is an equal-opportunity skewer. The more a subject or victim is ignored by the mass media, the more he infuriates, informs, and intensifies the reader’s attention.”
— Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed
“Khalil Bendib is your friendly non violent castigator of all the powers that oppress us.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, beat poet
* Zahra’s Paradise was released online in real time in 16 languages before it was published as a printed book. The original publisher was First Second in 2011. Other publishers to date include Egypt: Dar Al-Tanweer 2014 · Finland: Like 2012 · France: Editions Casterman 2011 · Germany: Knesebeck Verlag 2011 · Greece: Ellinka Grammata 2013 · Iran: vote4zahra.org 2013 · Israel: Saga Press · Italy: Rizzoli Lizard 2011 · Korea: Darun Publisher 2012 ·Netherlands: Casterman 2011 · Poland: Wydawnictwo Post 2013 · Portugal: Leya 2011 · Spain: Norma 2011 · Sweden: Epix Bokforlag AB 2011 · Turkey: Pegasus Yayincilik 2012.
