Simón Radowitzky #[nn]

Agustín Comotto's graphic biography of Simón Radowitzky arrives in German through Bahoe Books with a cover that immediately commands attention: a weathered, solitary figure in a striped prison cap sits hunched among seagulls against a cold, grey stone backdrop, the birds surrounding him as his only companions. The subtitle — Vom Schtetl zum Freiheitskämpfer ("From the Shtetl to the Freedom Fighter") — frames this as a sweeping human story of origins and struggle. Comotto's painterly linework gives the scene a melancholic dignity that feels entirely suited to the weight of its subject.