A newly translated collection of stories, IDW’s Voices That Count assembles the voices of women from Spanish-speaking countries.
While the styles, voices, graphic techniques, and narratives vary widely in this series of unconnected accounts, the common links are that of life, love, and empowerment. Of how the writers found their strengths tested, their wills strengthened, and their pathway, sometimes blocked or hampered, now freed due to their perserverence.
Most of the fourteen stories are fully illustrated in comic book format (word balloons, panels, sequential narrative), but some are written in prose, with spot illustrations. One is in the form of a long poem, colourfully illustrated.
It’s a collection that provokes thought and compels us to listen and pay attention. The struggles, the preconceptions of the role of women in the Spanish-speaking world, the sense of their persistence and of mentoring others; it’s all set loose here for us to learn from.
IDW Publishing, Voices That Count, $16.99 for 144 pages of content
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