Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story

Peter Bagge’s graphic biography for Drawn & Quarterly, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story (2013–present), is a single-issue comic that chronicles the life of the pioneering birth control activist. Bagge, writing and illustrating the entire work, brings his signature energetic, cartoonish style to a nuanced portrait of Sanger’s controversial legacy. This book stands as a concise, accessible entry in the growing field of comics-based historical biography.