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David Lester

 

David Lester is a musician, graphic designer and graphic novelist. His most recent book is Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel (Beacon Press) created with Marcus Rediker and Paul Buhle. He also illustrated “1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike”, (published in English, German and French editions). 1919 was co-winner of the 2020 CAWLS Book Prize. Lester’s poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He is guitarist in the rock duo Mecca Normal, cited as an influence on the founders of the feminist social movement Riot Grrrl. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

 

Books by David Lester

Revolution by Fire

New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel

by (author) Marcus Rediker & David Lester
contributions by Paul Buhle

Under the Banner of King Death

Pirates of the Atlantic, a Graphic Novel

illustrated by David Lester
by (author) Marcus Rediker
edited by Paul Buhle

Heroin

An Illustrated History

by (author) Susan C. Boyd
designed by David Lester

Prophet Against Slavery

Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel

illustrated by David Lester
afterword by Marcus Rediker & Paul Buhle

Half Brothers and Other Stories

a novella and four fictions

by (author) Bill Stenson
illustrated by David Lester

1919

Une histoire graphique de la grève générale de Winnipeg

by (author) Graphic History Collective
illustrated by David Lester

Direct Action Gets the Goods

A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada

by (author) Graphic History Collective
with Althea Balmes, Gord Hill, Orion Keresztesi & David Lester

The Listener

illustrated by David Lester

The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism

edited by David Lester
preface by Jean Smith