A review by zeyer_ayngenem
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans

5.0

Absolutely tremendous. Well-researched and well-written. Evans manages to deftly weave Luxemburg’s personal, romantic, emotional life seamlessly with her political life as a revolutionary theorist and major figure of the socialist left. She also includes enough necessary context (as well as some great lil primers on relevant concepts of Marxist theory) to make this feel like a very full biography — you get a hell of a lot in less than 200 pages of graphic novel. The illustration work is excellent, and maintains a flexibility of style that always feels appropriate, shifting smoothy from cartoonish to grotesque to realistic, capturing the shifting tone of Rosa’s story in all its complexities. Touching, inspiring, informative, would highly recommend for anyone interested in socialist history, revolutionary women, jewish leftists, or how to tell the story of a person who represents a movement.