The Water Defenders - graphic novel adaptation - launching in May

After five years in the making, the Graphix Project will officially launch in May 2026 with the release of our first graphic novel, an adaptation of the award-winning best seller “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed”.

This acclaimed book tells a David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main water source. At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations — from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines — The Water Defenders tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won.

Writers Robin Broad and John Cavanagh drew on a decade of research, interviews, and experience to recount the harrowing saga. Jon Sack’s captivating new graphic adaptation brings the story to new audiences and with new urgency, as environmental progress and human rights have come under renewed assault around the world. This book is a blueprint for grassroots civil society and local-to-global activism, a story that will inspire anyone who feels helpless against corporate malfeasance.

Pre-Order via Ohio State University Press: use discount code WATER at checkout for 30% off and free shipping in the US . You can also preorder through your favorite bookstore, Barnes & Noble or even Amazon.