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American Cult: A Graphic History of Religious Cults in America from the Colonial Era to Today
Paperback
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781945509636
Publisher: Silver Sprocket
Published: May 18 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In 1694, the religious tolerance of the Pennsylvania Colony enticed a Transylvanian monk and his forty followers to cross the Atlantic. Almost two hundred years later, a charismatic preacher founded a utopian community in Oneida, New York, that practiced socialism and free love. In the 1960s and '70s, a new generation of seekers gathered in vegetarian restaurants in Los Angeles, Satanic coffee shops in New Orleans, and fortified communes in Philadelphia. And in the twenty-first century, gurus use self-help seminars and get-rich-quick schemes to evangelize to their flocks.
Across the decades, Americans in search of divine truths have turned to unconventional prophets for the answers. Some of these prophets have demanded their faith, fortunes, and even their very lives. In American Cult, over twenty cartoonists explore the history of these groups with clarity and empathy--looking beyond the scandalous headlines to find the human stories within.
Featuring the talents of Lara Antal, Brian Box Brown, Ryan Carey, Rosa Colón Guerra, Mike Dawson, Lisa Rosalie Eisenberg, Mike Freiheit, Emi Gennis, Andrew Greenstone, Janet Harvey, Josh Kramer, Jesse Lambert, Ellen Lindner, Lonnie Mann, Ben Passmore, Jim Rugg, Robert Sergel, Vreni Stollberger, Steve Teare, and J.T. Yost.
2021 Summer Reads Selection
2021 PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll - Honorable Mention
2022 Cartoonist Studio Prize Nominee - Print Comics
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