“Art is a powerful tool to confront the complex issues we face today,” says author and artist Gan Golan. An uncontroversial statement, perhaps, when discussing great portraits, harrowing films, or triple decker novels. But not one generally associated with comics.
Yet Golan knows the powerful role that graphic novels can play in galvanising social movements better than most.
In 2010, he coauthored a short comic, The Adventures of Unemployed Man, that compared the efforts of the ordinary people challenging Wall Street’s financial elites with comic book heroes facing off against super villains.
