We All Wish for Deadly Force

By Leela Corman. Published by Retrofit. 

Softcover, 88 pages, Colour and B&W, 2016. 

Shortlisted for the 2017 Cartoonist Studio Prize

A collection of short stories by Leela Corman, including devastating personal loss, teaching bellydancing classes, her family in World War II Poland, reports from an American bellydancer about life in post revolution Egypt, and more.

Leela Corman is an illustrator, cartoonist, and Middle Eastern dancer who lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband Tom Hart and their daughter, Molly Rose. Her works include Flimflam, Queen’s Day (Alternative Books), Subway Series (Alternative Books), and Unterzakhn (Schocken/Pantheon).

88 color pages, 6x8.5 inches (152x216 mm), softcover perfect bound graphic novel