I Live Here
I Live Here
by Mia Kirshner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons
On its back cover, I Live Here is called a “paper documentary.” It is something other than a book, encased in a book-shaped box. Inside are four small paperbacks, the size of school notebooks; the first carries, appropriately, the mottled black-and-white of a composition book on its cover. Each book contains the story of people – particularly women and children – in places of conflict, told through journals, interviews, stories, photograhs and art, a collaboration between graphic novelists, …