“I wanted to investigate the Church’s history through my art to see what resonated and whether I would find truth there,” the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver said, of his graphic-novel biography of Joseph Smith.
The cartoonist Noah Van Sciver was raised in New Jersey, one of nine children in a poor Mormon family. When he was twelve, his parents divorced and his mother left the Church and took Van Sciver and his siblings with her. Despite the early break, Mormonism and his efforts to understand what it continues to mean to him is a recurrent thread in Van Sciver’s work.,” will be published at the end of July. It is a nuanced and complicated portrait of Mormonism’s founder.
You made the challenging choice to write a full biography in comics without the help of captions. All the information we’re given is through dialogue. What prompted that decision? Some historical figures, like Smith’s wife Emma Hale, have left fewer traces than others. What went into creating that character and the two’s relationship?
You said you took on the book as a way of understanding and recapturing feelings from your childhood. Has your thinking about Smith changed as you went along?
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