A Philagrafika and One Book, One Philadelphia event, presented in collaboration with the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.

For the past four years, Daniel Heyman has concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey where he has talked face to face with over 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of the American captors. Portfolios of his work are held by the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Yale University Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia, Spencer Museum of Art, North Dakota Museum of Art, and many other. Heyman holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, and currently teaches at Swarthmore and RISD.

Jamar Nicholas is a Philadelphia-based cartoonist, illustrator and educator. Beginning a career in comics in 1997, he has created several popular titles, most notably Detective Boogaloo: Hip Hop Cop. Jamar also held the rare position of Editorial Cartoonist at the Philadelphia Tribune—the nation’s oldest African-American newspaper. He has taught and lectured on the topic of comics creation at the University of the Arts, Delaware College of Art and Design, Arcadia University and currently teaches at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia.