“America: God, Gold, and Golems” by James Sturm

I’d bet anything that James Sturm is a picker of scabs. The part-time Vermont resident and director of White River Junction’s Center for Cartoon Studies specializes in graphic novels chronicling historical wounds, from scrapes to gashes. He’s interested in the personal stories that combine to make up a big historical fact. But Sturm’s fictional tales, in their particular tragic absurdity, give us more than social history — they give us art. Read on>