Rebecca Roher outlines the exhilarating puzzle of making comics that inspire a sense of wonder.

Rebecca Roher is a cartoonist and educator whose captivating work of graphic memoir Bird in a Cage won the Doug Wright Award in 2017. We discuss her current project, 100 Year Old Wisdom, and its interest in making us more open to the lived realities of aging and the aged. We also talk about her forthcoming graphic biography of civil rights activist Viola Desmond, which will be out in October as part of the Nova Graphica anthology from Conundrum Press (https://www.conundrumpress.com/forthcoming/nova-graphica/). She explains how representing Desmond’s story required extensive research and intense self-reflection on what it means to be an anti-racist ally. Head to http://rebeccaroher.com/index.html to see more of her singular style of graphic storytelling.