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Our Book Recommendation for August: The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation
Book Cover: The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation, © The Washington Post (Author), Jan Feindt (Illustrator)
After our exciting event in June with German comic author Tobi Dahmen, we continue our theme of non-fiction comics with our book recommendation for August: “The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation”. This time, it's a collaborative work by The Washington Post and German illustrator and comic artist Jan Feindt.
About the Author:
Jan Feindt studied illustration in Tel Aviv, where he co-founded the German-Israeli comic group Dimona in 2002. In 2019, he collaborated with The Washington Post to release the illustrated edition of The Mueller Report, which made it into the Top 20 of the NY Times Bestseller List in the “Graphic Books” category. Feindt's illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Der Spiegel.
About the Book:
The Mueller Report Illustrated: The Obstruction Investigation by The Washington Post (Author), Jan Feindt (Illustrator)
When it was released on April 18, 2019, Mueller’s report laid out two major conclusions: that Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election had been “sweeping and systematic” and that the evidence did not establish that Trump or his campaign had conspired with the Kremlin. The special counsel left one significant question unanswered: whether the president broke the law by trying to block the investigation.
However, Mueller unspooled a dramatic narrative of an angry and anxious president trying to control the criminal investigation, even after he knew he was under scrutiny. Deep inside the 448-page report is a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of the White House, remarkable in detail and drama. With dialogue taken directly from the report, The Mueller Report Illustrated is a vivid, factually rigorous narrative of a crucial period in Trump’s presidency that remains relevant to the turbulent events of today.
The comic, released in 2019, was a finalist for the 2020 Online Journalism Award in the category “Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling, Large Newsroom.”
Read the comic in The Washington Post, buy it or borrow it from the Vancouver Public Library.