What drives visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas to tell stories through comics?

A number of years ago, curators from the Humboldt Forum approached visual artist and storyteller Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, asking him to do some sort of commentary on Johan Adrian Jacobsen, a Norweigian explorer, who travelled along B.C.’s coast in the 1880s. 

“It was a bit of a challenge,” he said.

“The challenge was to tell someone else’s story and to do it accurately as opposed to telling my family story, as is with earlier books. There’s a comfort in that because you can claim a certain degree of authority, but when we step out to tell someone else’s story, we have to tread carefully.”

The work he did, learning about Jacobsen and the

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