Sharon Rudahl, author and artist of Dangerous Woman “Kate Evans deserves our gratitude for telling the tragic tale of this early twentieth-century revolutionary.” “A story told with verve, humor, and great art.” The perfect book for socialist-curious … What Rosa Luxemburg wrote about and predicted is scarily relevant today.” Its massive appendix, providing lengthy quotations from source material for every citation in the comic, is an education in itself.” “A stirring and beautiful book … Red Rosa is of more than biographical or aesthetic interest as an introduction to Rosa Luxembourg’s ideas. It embodies everything implied by the phrase ‘Marxismus theorie und praxis.’”

Red Rosa is a gripping, wonderfully illustrated account of Rosa Luxemburg the person, but more importantly a straightforward and intellectually honest introduction to her politics and her theoretical contributions.

“If it were a movie, you might call Red Rosa a tour de force, but that would be short-changing it. Molly Crabapple, artist and author of Drawing Blood Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Living with a Wild God

This book is hard to put down and contains a challenge that is impossible to turn away from: We could create a better world-peaceful, egalitarian, even joyful-if we are willing to learn from Red Rosa.” “A courageous leader of the early twentieth-century socialist movement-a woman who dared to question both Marx and Lenin-Luxemburg was also, as Kate Evans reveals in this brilliant graphic biography, a person of deep passions, ecstatic insights, and ultimately, as fascism emerged from the ruins of World War I-heartbreak of historic dimensions. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose philosophy enriched every corner of an incredibly productive and creative life-her many friendships, her sexual intimacies, and her love of science, nature and art.Īlways opposed to the First World War, when others on the German left were swept up on a tide of nationalism, she was imprisoned and murdered in 1919 fighting for a revolution she knew to be doomed. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. But she was much more than just a thinker. A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa LuxemburgĪ giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought.

Drawn to Change by Paul M. Buhle