Staying Alive in Little Five

Joseph Karg and Chris Bivins in collaboration with Sarah Febres-Cordero

Staying Alive in Little Five is a graphic novel that highlights the experiences of restaurant workers encountering substance use and addiction in Atlanta’s Little Five Points community. Science Gallery Atlanta is presenting one chapter of this work in the gallery.

Read Designing a Graphic Novel: Engaging Community, Arts, and Culture Into Public Health Initiatives


Sarah Febres-Cordero is Harm Reduction Nurse Scientist and a post-doctoral fellow at Emory University.

Joseph Karg is a freelance illustrator and Assistant Professor of Illustration and Sequential Art at Kennesaw State University.