Starting in the 1800s, political cartoons were utilized to further dehumanize Indigenous peoples of North America.

To prevent this ‘westernization’ of the Indigenous tales, illustrations were preapproved by the storytellers as to not have the overall motif distorted. Due to these unique differences in illustration styles, Matt Dembicki worried about the cultural origins of some stories getting lost in the artwork. The style of each graphic novel ranges from realistic to child-like illustrations, to detailed paintings. Īlthough each story within the collection is a Native tale, most of the illustrations were done by a non-native artist. Lesser known characters are depicted as the trickster throughout the remaining stories such as the raven in Raven the Trickster and the racoon in Espun and Grandfather. Many of the tales such as, Coyote and the Pebbles and Rabbit and the Tug-of-War depict the trickster in a more well-known form of a coyote or rabbit. This character is the main focus of the story and is typically depicted as an animal figure. As the title of the collection suggests, each story contains a character that is known and depicted as a Trickster. All stories contained within the anthology are tales that have been told orally for centuries within Native American tribes. The premise of each short story is to teach a moral lesson or explain how certain natural events happen. Published in 2010 and edited by Matt Dembicki, Trickster contains twenty-one short stories, all told by Indigenous storytellers from many different native nations. Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection is an anthology of Native American stories in the format of graphic novels.

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Trickster by Matt Dembicki