Artist Sofia Warren shadowed New York legislator Julia Salazar to write the graphic memoir “Radical: My Year With a Socialist Senator.”
From such a low view, though, sometimes you stop to appreciate what’s growing at the grass roots. And in her community four years ago, a movement was gaining traction.
“Radical” is part civics primer for young adult readers, yet its layered on-the-ground narrative can resonate with anyone interested in the convergence of money and power, the will of organized voters and the wheels of compromise behind closed doors. The candidate and the cartoonist first met up at a Brooklyn coffee shop in the fall of 2018. The two women were the same age, 27, but their paths to this casual Sunday meeting were starkly different.Salazar had just won her Democratic primary in a Brooklyn district, making her a shoo-in to take office the following January as theever elected to the New York State Senate.
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