59 entries in Mag: Graphic Lit

Letter to the Mother (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Mazen Kerbaj | February 1, 2012

Because of you I fancied killing a hundred times.

Translated from French by Mazen Kerbaj and Ahmad Gharbieh

Demonsterate (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Nawel Louerrad | February 1, 2012

I've been wearing this tutu since I was a kid.

Translated from French by Canan Marasligil

from “The Eternonaut,” Part II (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Héctor G. Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López | February 1, 2012

There are other survivors!

Read Part I here

Translated from Spanish by Erica Mena

A Great Step Forward: Memoir of the Famine (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié | February 1, 2012

Even the roaches in the village are dying of hunger.

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

from “Les Mohameds” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Jérôme Ruillier | February 1, 2012

I loved Renault like you'd love a mistress.

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

Romanticism (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Krysztof Gawronkiewicz | February 1, 2012

Our technology enables the resurrection of an incomplete body.

Regular readers of Words without Borders will remember Otto Bohater, the downbeat Warsaw detective, and his faithful partner, Watson the White Rat, who appeared in an extract from Essence in 2007. Their…...

Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

from “The International” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Roannie and Oko | February 1, 2012

The old man had his eye put out by the colonists a few years ago.

Both travel book and testimony, L'intruse records the experiences of a French human rights activist in the Middle East. Roannie, a retired pediatrician and member of Amnesty International, spent nine months…...

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

The Eternonaut (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Héctor G. Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López | January 1, 2012

Death, continuously falling in tiny, luminous flakes. The nightmare snowfall that had erased almost all life...

Translated from Spanish by Erica Mena

An Iranian Metamorphosis (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Mana Neyestani | December 1, 2011

Write why you drew that cartoon and why you chose a Turkish word.

Translated from Persian by Ghazal Mosadeq

Catharina Margaretha Linck (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Elke R. Steiner | June 1, 2011

Catharina Margaretha Linck, executed for sodomy in Halberstad, 1721

Translated from German by Edna McCown

from “Reunion” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Pascal Girard | April 1, 2011

Don't move. You're bleeding.

Translated from French by Helge Dascher

The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster, part three (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Eom Jeong-Hui and Ko Im-Hong | April 1, 2011

Use the Frequency A generator to extract all the secrets from inside his head. Then quietly kill him.

Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl

The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster, part two (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Eom Jeong-Hui and Ko Im-Hong | March 2, 2011

If they find out he's doing research for us, we're doomed!

Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl

Two Million People in the Square: Scenes from the Revolution (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Magdy El Shafee | February 14, 2011

The people say: Step down now!

Throughout the February 2011 Egyptian revolution, Magdy El Shafee and his friends distributed a graphic journal documenting the harsh attacks of the Mubarak regime.

Translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies

War Rabbit (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Rutu Modan and Igal Sarna | February 1, 2011

We've taught bunnies to live above ground, and we've driven human beings underground.

Translated from Hebrew by G. H. Freedman

The Story of Serafima Andreyevna (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Igort | February 1, 2011

Cannibalism became commonplace.

Translated from Italian by Jamie Richards

from “Malamine” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Christophe Ngalle Edimo and Simon-Pierre Mbumbo | February 1, 2011

You'll have to pay an air tax. On the air you're breathing, idiot!

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

The Cat’s Coming (in a Left-Handed Version) (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Chihoi | February 1, 2011

Knock-out drugs! Rape! Murder! Dismemberment!

The adaptation that follows was inspired by a short story (also in this month's issue), “Davin Chan Moves Out," by the celebrated Hong Kong novelist and essayist Xi Xi. Chihoi’s version, which was…...

Translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury