The Troublemakers Sloane Leong all Vera wants to do

all Vera wants to do is fit in—but that’s not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs

In late 2004

but by coming to terms with oneself

there was a second volume

“These books can help build strong girls—and boys—for today's world”

The Troublemakers Sloane Leong all Vera wants to doBy Baron Yoshimoto. Translated by Ryan Holmberg. Published by Retrofit. Softcover, 248 pages, B&W, 2018. A collection of some of the best stories by Baron Yoshimoto, one of the Japanese manga artists who helped develop the graphic novel form in the 1960s and 1970s by targeting an older audience with scintillating and exquisitely drawn stories about class, gender, ethnicity, and race. With an essay by noted manga historian and translator Ryan Holmberg.