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C. Daniela Shapiro, uses art as a tool for storytelling, aesthetic representation, and social justice. Her new prize-winning graphic novel Running Without Moving, a 200+-page graphic memoir exploring modern life experiences with misogyny and sexual violence, is looking for a major publisher, after a small print run sold out.  

Her previous short graphic novel The Stories of Survivors has been critically acclaimed and is available for sale.  (E.g., “It’s truly powerful and the writing is very accomplished and nuanced.” (Karen Berger, renowned editor, Berger Books, Vertigo, DC); “All of the stories are very well realized in this book and are quite unforgettable.” (Kim Deitch, underground/avant-comix artist, Eisner and Inkpot Award winner); “In stark black-and-white drawings, Shapiro captures the heartbreaking stories of the Shoah survivors.  The Stories of Survivors has been praised as an approachable and modern response to the Holocaust” (The Los Angeles Times); “The Stories of Survivors is a very powerful educational tool.” (Jordanna Gessler,  Director of Education, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).

Daniela is winner of the Rose O’Neill Award for Distinction in Illustrationin 2023 from Sam Fox School of Art at Wash. U. in St. Louis, (where Daniela earned an MFA); and has been profiled among the NY Jewish Week 36 Under 36.  She was chosen for John Lewis’s Children Civic Arts Initiative, Geva Theater Center, Rochester, NY; and her art a featured winner of the Manitoba Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival international mural competition (her piece “emphasized inclusion and diversity in a joyful way”); and exhibited at POW!!! Jewish Comic Art and Influence, Brooklyn, NY.

Daniela graduated U Rochester (’20) with her BA in Philosophy, where her comics art was awarded a Best Writing prize from the university.  A profile feature in The Rochester Reviewquotes about Daniela that “Shapiro expresses ‘deep, honest, vulnerability in her art.  More than anyone I know, she’s willing and able to excavate her emotions, no matter how painful, and find the most powerful images possible to express herself,’ Yau says. ‘She’s fearless when it comes to confronting difficult topics. She has a deep respect for survivors of trauma and takes great pains to bring to light their humanity, rather than just their suffering.’”

Website: https://www.cdanielashapiro.com/