Damien Roudeau

highly recommended journalistic comic. the jungle visuals are magical. the story is tight and focused on the subject of the memoir, Pablo. you couldn’t write a more righteous character. his early interest in organizing resulted in his town coming together to pay for his law degree! he spends the next 25 years fighting the goliath chevron representing 30k Ecuadorians impacted by their massive pollution. the story is still alive and he’ll probably continue the fight the rest of his life. show more inspiring piece for organizers everywhere. show less

An Ecuadorean man recounts -- with the help of a French journalist and artist -- his early life working for Texaco, helping to pollute the Amazon rainforest with oil extraction wastes, and how he later became a lawyer and sued Texaco/Chevron on behalf of the indigenous people who were harmed by the toxic pollution left in the water and soil. That kind of muddled message continues throughout the book as a major victory in a court in Ecuador is basically left unenforceable and allegations of show more various sorts have been leveled against judges and the plaintiff attorneys.

It's a legal mess of epic proportions that creates such a show as to distract from the victims of corporate malfeasance and Texaco/Chevron's indifference to human suffering. They get a little lost in Fajardo's memoir as he flies around the country and the world for court and media appearances, à la Erin Brockovich, but he does manage to refocus and tell at least a portion of their story amidst his own. show less

Crude is a real-world graphic narration of Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo's long running battle against oil giant Chevron's polluting of the Amazon river through the 60's and beyond. What makes it so heart-wrenching is its simplistic artwork which depicts the trials and travails of the poverty stricken South American indigenous tribes taking on one of the world's largest giants. A must read immersion in the world of corporate greed and its inimical affects.