Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom – Turning Trauma into a Graphic Novel

Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is a Swedish-Korean comic book artist, illustrator and adoptee rights activist. Her work revolves around issues of racism, representation, identity and the politics of transnational and transracial adoption, and she finds comics to be the perfect medium for storytelling and activism.

She is working on her third graphic novel, “Invisible Lives”, which again deals with adoptees. This time, the focus is on issues of mental health, trauma, and the alarming lack of support from a society that consistently has turned its back on suffering adoptees.