Huh, I didn’t know about this. Apparently L Word actress Mia Kirshner has put together a “collaborative” graphic novel about the displaced peoples of the world. Entitled I Live Here, it will be published by Pantheon Books in October and features such notable contributors as Joe Sacco and Phoebe Gloeckner. Laura Hudson talked to Kirshner to get some more details:
PW Comics Week: How long have you been working on this project?
Mia Kirshner: It’s been seven years. It came about because of a gradual sort of feeling that I had, that the life I was leading was pretty limited. I didn’t feel like I knew enough about how the rest of the world lived. And I also felt like I just wasn’t happy creatively with what I was doing. So I did about a year of research and put this idea together: the combination of comics and first-person accounts of survival and trauma. Joe Sacco was the first person I approached.
