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Wash day diaries

"A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--

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Main Author:	Rowser, Jamila (writer.)
Other Authors:	Smith, Robyn (Cartoonist) (Artist), Glendining, Bex (colourist.), Lee, Kazimir, 1986- (colourist.)
Format:	Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:	English
Published:	San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2022]
Subjects:	African American women > Fiction. Hair > Care and hygiene > Fiction. Female friendship > Fiction. Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works)
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Summary:	"A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
Physical Description:	191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9781797205458 1797205455
Author Notes:	Jamila Rowser is a Black, Puerto Rican, and Dominican award-winning writer who enjoys creating comics for Black women. She also publishes comics by and for women of color and non-binary people of color through Black Josei Press. Jamila was featured, along with Robyn Smith, in Adweek's 2021 Creative 100 as a creator to follow. Jamila lives in Miami but reps the Bronx. You can find her detangling her hair, reading manga, and doting on her two cats Sage and Sapphire. Robyn Smith is a Jamaican cartoonist known for illustrating DC Comics' Nubia: Real One (written by L.L. McKinney) and her mini-comic The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town . She has an MFA from the Center for Cartoon Studies and has worked on comics for College Humor and The Nib. She loves cake and cats and holds onto dreams of returning home to the ocean.