Articles tagged "Graphic Literature"

Tahrir Square, One Year Ago (Dispatches)

By Susan Harris | February 17, 2012

As the events of the Arab Spring unfolded last year, WWB published a number of dispatches from and about the affected countries. One of our favorites came from Egyptian graphic novelist Magdy El…...

From the Translator: The Eternonaut (Dispatches)

By Erica Mena | January 12, 2012

I discovered El Eternauta while translating a poem. Until recently I considered myself to be primarily a translator of poetry. I’d made a few forays into prose, but poetry is always where I’ve…...

Animal Farm; or, a Short and Somewhat Political History of Comics in Poland (Mag: Articles)

By Tomasz Kołodziejczak | February 2, 2010

The Goat Polish comics began in 1919 with the publication in the Lvov satirical weekly Szczutek (“Fillip”) of With Fire and Sword; or, The Adventures of Mad Grześ, about a young soldier…...

Translated from Polish by Michael Kandel

from “Proud Beggars” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Albert Cossery and Golo | February 1, 2010

Albert Cossery and Golo slouch through a seedy Cairo

Albert Cossery's 1955 masterpiece, Proud Beggars, takes place in the squalid slums of Cairo. While some residents struggle with oppression, poverty, and corruption, others renounce the hypocrisy of society…...

Translated from French by Lulu Norman

from “King-Ma Has Come” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Wei Tsung-cheng | February 1, 2010

Wei Tsung-Cheng produces a mock-heroic Chinese political history

King-Ma Has Come (Ma Huang Jiang Lin) is a product of the hugely popular kuso culture in Asia. Also known as egao in Mandarin Chinese, the genre is known for its campy humor and outrageous parodies of…...

Translated from Chinese by Nancy Tsai

from “That Was Happiness” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Blutch | February 1, 2010

Blutch charts the end of a marriage

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

from “Farm 54” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Galit Seliktar and Gilad Seliktar | February 1, 2010

Galit Seliktar and Gilad Seliktar map a soldier's first evacuation

The graphic novel Farm 54 brings together three semi-autobiographical stories from the childhood, puberty, and early adulthood (military service years) of its female protagonist, growing up in Israel’s…...

Translated from Hebrew by Ronen Altman Kaydar

from “Waiting for an Island” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Marc Legendre | February 1, 2010

Marc Legendre's daydreamer waits for his past

Translated from Dutch by David Colmer

from “A Game for Swallows” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Zeina Abirached | February 1, 2010

Zeina Abirached dodges bullets in the Beirut of her childhood

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

Translating Dino Buzzati: A Conversation with Marina Harss (Mag: Articles)

By Michael McDonald | February 1, 2010

In addition to her freelance writing for the New Yorker’s Goings On About Town and her frequent forays into dance criticism, Marina Harss is also a versatile and prolific translator from French,…...

Letter to Survivors (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Gébé | January 4, 2010

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

Blizzard in the Jungle, Part Two (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Ri Chol-Geun and Jo Hak-Rae | October 1, 2009

North Korean intrigue in the African jungle.

Listen, everyone, the plane was sabotaged.

Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Geesu Lee

Paradise . . . Kind of (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Troub’s | August 31, 2009

The Total corporation—jewel in the crown of the French economy—maintains a presence in many countries across the globe, wherever there are fossil fuels to exploit. To do so, it hires locals,…...

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

An Interview with Adrian Tomine (Mag: Articles)

By Dot Lin | March 1, 2009

Over 800 pages and eleven years in the making, A Drifting Life is a monumental achievement and the long-waited autobiography of legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Called the father of gekiga—realistic…...

Tetsu of the Yamanote Line (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Osamu Tezuka | February 3, 2009

Japanese books, including manga like this one, are meant to be read from right to left. So the front cover is actually the back cover, and vice-versa. To read this excerpt, start in the top right-hand…...

Translated from Japanese by Camellia Nieh