The Great American Dust Bowl

Don Brown’s The Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin, 2013–present) is a single-issue graphic novel that brings the harrowing ecological and human disaster of the 1930s Dust Bowl to vivid, sobering life. Written and illustrated entirely by Brown, this work distills the era’s history into a powerful, cinematic narrative that combines stark visual storytelling with factual depth. It stands as a compelling entry in the nonfiction comics tradition, offering readers a concise yet resonant portrait of a pivotal American catastrophe.