By Meg Lemke
Publishers Weekly
Jul 12, 2024
Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
Raymond Tyler and Summer McClinton. PM, Oct. 1 ($17.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88744-059-0)
In 1910s Appalachia, activist Mary Harris “Mother” Jones persuades mine workers to unionize, leading to uprisings and violent reprisals by the ruling class.
B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown
Golo, trans. by Donald Nicholson-Smith. PM, Nov. 5 ($19.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88744-055-2)
The author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre employed many pseudonyms in his roles as a journalist, politician, actor, and editor of an anarchist newspaper in Germany, as documented in this graphic biography.
