An artist learned to draw comics to understand her family’s trauma. She has now made Pulitzer Prize history

An artist learned to draw comics to understand her family’s trauma. She has now made Pulitzer Prize history

When cruise ships dock in Juneau, Alaska’s capital, the tourist invasion causes the fragile internet signal to become unstable for the residents. That’s why, on Monday, May 5, someone had to tell Tessa Hulls that her graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts (2024), had become only the second comic in history to win a Pulitzer Prize. In 1992, Art Spiegelman’s masterpiece, Maus — based on the memories of his father, a Holocaust survivor — was awarded a Spec…