A review by asaugustine
Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Steve Max, Paul Buhle

informative medium-paced

2.5

I wanted to like this so much more than I actually did, and I finished this text more confused about Eugene Debs and his impact than when I started. This book needed significantly more editing; the events highlighted in the text jumped around without connecting transitions, making me feel like I was always missing something. The graphic novel portions felt like an inadequate summary of the text at the beginning of each chapter. The only highlight was Chapter 4, which focused on only one event in Eugene Debs’ life, instead of trying to arbitrarily cover a wide swath of time. Ultimately this felt like a DSA passion project that needed much more attention before it was allowed to be sold in museum gift shops.