Shake Girl
by Jess McCabe // 14 May 2008, 22:41
Fifteen students and two professors at Stanford have produced an excellent graphic novel, which tells the story of a teenage Cambodian girl working at a stall selling shakes, and how she ends up getting doused in acid.
The storytelling could have turned patronising and hand-wringing, but the students navigated around this well:
You can read it here.
(Via Boing Boing)
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Lauren O // Posted 15 May 2008 at 04:26
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's my book. I am one of those students. I am in the back as Lauren O, even.
Jennifer-Ruth // Posted 15 May 2008 at 10:42
Wow! I am a massive comics geek and I will be reading this on my lunchtime today at work!
I sent a link to When Fangirls Attack too, because I know there are a lot of feminist comic book readers out there that will be very interested in this.