Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s Wash Day Diaries (Chronicle Books) and Alex Segura’s comics industry-inspired novel Secret Identity (Flatiron Books) won best Graphic Novel/Comics and best Mystery/Thriller categories at the 2023 LA Times Book Awards over the weekend. Rowser and Smith potentially the first Black women to be nominated and win the LA Times Book Prize Graphic Novel category. 🏆🙌🏾 Wash Day Diaries, by me and @RoBroSmo, won the LA Times Book Prize for the Graphic Novel/Comic category! “Wash Day Diaries celebrates Black women, hair, sisterhood, and beauty in the mundanity of Black femme life in the Bronx. We are so proud that our 27-page comic grew into a 192-page graphic novel that people of all backgrounds love.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 24, 2023 22:29 UTC