From the award-winning author of My Friend Dahmer and Kent State comes a timely graphic novel about racism, violence, and political turmoil in the early 20th century, when a handful of cartoonists and journalists pushed back against a corrupt administration to defend the rights of free speechWEVE BEEN HERE BEFORE . . . BUT WE FORGOT.Its 1916. President Woodrow Wilsona deeply divisive authoritarian who is also a white supremacist with open contempt for constitutional rightssits in the Oval Office.Racial tensions, unprecedented economic inequality, a groundswell of support for unionization, and the rise of both a reactionary far right militia and a growing radical opposition shake the very foundations of American society. A pandemic is two years away. And the 1900s have only just gotten started.AMERICA IS A COUNTRY ON THE BRINK OF CHAOS.The Dissidents follows a group of real and influential political cartoonists who worked for the magazine The Mas