Cover image for JAJ : [graphic novel] a Haida manga / Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.
TITLE:
JAJ : [graphic novel] a Haida manga / Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.
Alternate Title:
Johan Adrian Jacobsen
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
Madeira Park, B.C. : Douglas and McIntyre,
Physical Description:
116 p. : col. ill.
Geographic Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the early colonization by the Europeans of the northern West Coast. Yahgulanaas uses a blend of traditional and modern art, eschewing the traditional boxes of comic books for the flowing shapes of North Pacific iconography. The panels are filled with colourful and expressive watercolour paintings. The panels of each page, if removed and assembled into one whole image, form a large image reminiscent of a woven robe. The story follows several historical figures, including Johan Adrian Jacobsen (JAJ), who comes to the Haida village of Masset to collect specimens for a German museum, through a time span that includes first contact, the devastation of the smallpox epidemic, and the mass resettlement of disenfranchised peoples, both Indigenous and European.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781771623537