Threads documents a sequence of short visits that I made to the Calais Jungle and Dunkirk refugee camps in Northern France in 2015 and 2016. I have never been so strongly inspired to draw what I have encountered, and try to make people understand the insanity and inhumanity of the refugee crisis. Click the flipbook above to read the comic that went viral from my first trip.

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Threads from the Refugee Crisis is published in the US and UK by Verso Books.

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“Gripping and beautiful… This is comics journalism at its finest.” – Alison Bechdel
“A hugely moving tribute to human compassion and solidarity… it urges us to think and to act. A must-read.” – Morning Star
“The threads of these people’s lives coalesce to form a bigger picture with an underlying message: we need to treat our fellow humans with care and respect.” – Times Literary Supplement
Winner of the John Laurence Award
Winner of the Broken Frontier Award for Graphic Non-Fiction
The first ever graphic novel to be listed for the Orwell Prize
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International editions:

Arabic: Nool – Korean: Green Knowledge – Portuguese (Brazilian): DarkSide Books – Serbian: Fabrika Knjiga – Swedish: Epix Bokforlag – Turkish: Tudem

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