Welcome to the New World

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The author Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan created Welcome to the New World, a comic strip that tells the story of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America. This comic appeared as 20 episodes in The New York Times / Sunday Review. Jake and Michael received a 2018 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning for Welcome to the New World.

The full-length book of this New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic story will be published in September 2020 by Metropolitan Books, and can be pre-ordered now on Amazon. Welcome to the New World will be published in the UK by Bloomsbury Publishing.

You can read an informative article in the NY Times about Welcome to the New World, written by our editor Bruce Headlam.

First Day of Class. Try Not to Stand Out. Published by The New York Times on 4/2/2017

First Day of Class. Try Not to Stand Out. Published by The New York Times on 4/2/2017