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Flight of Sudanese 'Lost Boys' Captured in Comic Book

By Zac Crain

Dallas Observer | October 12, 2004

A reality comic book, Echoes, portrays the suffering caused by the genocide and ethnic cleansing against animist, Christian and Muslim blacks in Sudan.

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Tags: Texas, Refugees, Ethiopia, Dallas, Sudan, international, superheroes, Catholic Charities, publisher James Disco

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