Available now! Order online from Fantagraphics, Bookshop, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Or, better yet, find it at your local indy book store or fine comics shoppe.
Some praise for Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz:
"[A] provocative graphic memoir debut. ... By turns funny and horrifying, it adds up to a telling study of how the past informs the present. "
"Amid a crowded landscape of literature by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz stands out for the way in which it relentlessly questions the author’s own assumptions about his family, about memory, and about himself.”
— Nora Berman, The Forward
“The word ‘memoir’ cannot hold everything bursting out of this book….wrestles deeply with what it means to be Jewish, and American, and part of a family, and a person alive in today’s world."
— Emily Tamkin, The Washington Post
""Richter’s graphic memoir embeds his grandparents’ stories of escape within his own of assimilation and privilege in the United States."
— Marc Tracy, The New York Times
"Never Again... is an impressive feat of family excavation and a heartrending story about inheritance. Richter narrates his grandparents' harrowing tales of survival with graphic ingenuity while honoring the enduring sources of Jewish trauma. And he never forgets humor, the balm for our grief. I'm so glad this book exists"
— Amy Kurzweil, author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir and Artificial: A Love Story
“Captivating…Richter uses dark humor, historical details, and extended metaphors to great effect. He also succeeds in moving between perspectives and combining documentation of the Holocaust with unflinching self-questioning.”
— Emily Schneider, Jewish Book Council
“Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is dense, thought provoking, enlightening and broad ranging in connecting past and present, and as such transcends single person memoirs.”
— Frank Plowright, The Slings & Arrows Graphic Novel Guide
And here's a graphic essay I made for Hyperallergic about Jerry Lewis' famously-unreleased Holocaust movie, The Day The Clown Cried.