Overview
With gorgeous imagery, visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the early colonization by the Europeans of the northern West Coast. Yahgulanaas uses a blend of traditional and modern art, eschewing the traditional boxes of comic books for the flowing shapes of North Pacific iconography. The panels are filled with colourful and expressive watercolour paintings. The panels of each page, if removed and assembled into one whole image, form a large image reminiscent of a woven robe. The story follows several historical figures, including Johan Adrian Jacobsen (JAJ), who comes to the Haida village of Masset to collect specimens for a German museum, through a time span that includes first contact, the devastation of the smallpox epidemic, and the mass resettlement of disenfranchised peoples, both Indigenous and European.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Imprint: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9781771623537
ISBN 10: 1771623535
Pages: 132
Publication Date: 09 November 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This book is a necessary tale told by the perfect voice at the right time. It also uses graphic imagery in a way I've not seen before, and it feels ground-breaking."" —Douglas Coupland ""a masterpiece of cultural mash-up and historic grief…In his magisterial version of the genre, a unique blend of Haida and Japanese Manga imagery is put to work conveying historic truth and profound, nuanced human tragedy in a visually powerful form."" —Vancouver Sun ""Yahgulanaas has a way with a story. His work leaps off the page, smacks you in the face, and then explodes linear narratives like an atomic bomb."" —The Tyee ""Tradition and innovation combine in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Haida manga."" —Quill & Quire ""A tale of history and humanization unfold in colourful ‘Haida Manga’"" —The Globe and Mail"
"""This book is a necessary tale told by the perfect voice at the right time. It also uses graphic imagery in a way I've not seen before, and it feels ground-breaking."" —Douglas Coupland"
"""This book is a necessary tale told by the perfect voice at the right time. It also uses graphic imagery in a way I've not seen before, and it feels ground-breaking."" —Douglas Coupland “This experimental art object delivers a moving message.” –Publishers Weekly ""a masterpiece of cultural mash-up and historic grief…In his magisterial version of the genre, a unique blend of Haida and Japanese Manga imagery is put to work conveying historic truth and profound, nuanced human tragedy in a visually powerful form."" —Vancouver Sun ""Yahgulanaas has a way with a story. His work leaps off the page, smacks you in the face, and then explodes linear narratives like an atomic bomb."" —The Tyee ""Tradition and innovation combine in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Haida manga."" —Quill & Quire ""A tale of history and humanization unfold in colorful ‘Haida Manga’"" —The Globe and Mail"
Author Information
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is an internationally renowned artist and award-winning author. His previous Haida Manga include Red (2009) and Carpe Fin (2019). He is from the North Pacific archipelago of Haida Gwaii and now lives on an island in the Salish sea with his family.
