Soft Targets

On Guns in America and the Kids Caught in the Crossfire

Camila Kerwin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2026
Street Noise Books (Verlag)
978-1-951491-53-6 (ISBN)

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A work of comics journalism around the stories of four kids who have died in the U.S. due to gun violence or gun negligence—the leading cause of death for minors since 2020, and dispelling myths of the history of gun culture in the U.S.

Who have we lost? How did we get here? Why do gun-lovers love their guns? These are the questions that people across America ask every time another news story broadcasts a death from gun violence.

With compassionate, thoughtful journalism, this graphic novel explores the lives of five kids and teenagers and the guns that ended their lives: from incidents of gang violence to school shootings to suicide. These tragedies are presented alongside the history of gun culture and legislation, discussing the NRA, the legal system, and the racial imbalances in American gun violence.

Camila Kerwin is a journalist who makes comics and radio. She’s a regular comics contributor to The Boston Globe and a founding member of the Rough Cut Collective, an on-demand audio editing studio. Camila illustrated WLRN’s Class of COVID-19; An Education Crisis for Florida’s Vulnerable Students, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2022. She has been a Producer at Marketplace’s This is Uncomfortable, Storycorps, and NPR’s On Point: and an Editor at KCRW’s Bodies. Her work has appeared on WNYC, NPR’s Morning Edition, Sony’s Cheat!, The World from PRI, The Miami Herald, and more. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from NYU, and holds a Master’s Degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism as well as an MFA from Boston University. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her wife and cat. The Leading Cause is her debut book. Follow her @camilakerwin.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.7.2026
Zusatzinfo	Full Color Illustrations throughout
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-951491-53-X / 195149153X
ISBN-13	978-1-951491-53-6 / 9781951491536
Zustand	Neuware