Those Who Helped Us

This book takes Fred Rogers advice to "look for the helpers" to heart as it follows a fictional Japanese family into internment during World War II -- rousted from Seattle and imprisoned in Idaho -- and spotlights the fellow and very real Americans who didn't question their patriotism or loyalty but instead extended sympathetic and helping hands . . . even through barbed wire.

The script could have used a little more editing for some technical and pacing issues but it delivers on content. Kiku Hughes' art is good when it comes to the characters, but without the color used to enhance her art as in her own graphic novel on the Japanese American internment, Displacement, the backgrounds look exceedingly sparse and downright blank, bringing show more too much white space to most pages.

Still, this is a nice addition to the growing body of graphic novels about this dark stain on America's history. show less