A group of linocut prints from the early graphic novel “Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts by Lin Shi Khan and Tony Perez”, 1935 edition, has recently arrived at the studio. The Scottsboro Case The Scottsboro Case, of 1931-1937, was at the time not only the most complicated, but also the most important civil rights case in the United States, resulting in two Supreme Court decisions and a nation-wide discussion about what was often viewed as “legal lynching”, because