Breakout: No Shots Fired

Breakout is a selection of short comics from incarcerated artists of different ages, backgrounds, and abilities who meet weekly to focus on individual projects and to collaborate with and support each other. Breakout is dedicated to the late Rene Garcia, a gifted San Francisco artist and innovative and supportive teacher who was dearly loved. He had just started teaching graphic novels to the San Quentin class when he died suddenly at the age of 41. Artist Sonia Wallach took over the nascent graphic novel project and supported each artist to best tell his own story. The book contains humor and sadness, traditional comic heroes and villains from multiple cultures, depictions of childhood trauma as well as life in prison; and the imagined freedom of leaving prison, including a trip around the world to see famous artworks.

• | Author: San Quentin Graphic Novel Collective
• | Publisher: William James Association
• | Publication Date: Dec 02, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 108 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1938901991
• | ISBN-13: 9781938901997