Rona Jaffe Award–winning cartoonist Ebony Flowers and University of California Riverside lecturer Rachelle Cruz (Experiencing Comics) will discuss Flowers' remarkable and highly anticipated debut Hot Comb. In this graphic novel hair offers an entry point into the anxieties, joys, and support networks of Black women in the U.S. today. Whether she's detailing an awkward subway ride or describing the burn of a teen's first perm, realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' poignant stories.