Alexandra Gueydan-Turek is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Swarthmore College (USA). Her work examines locally produced comics from the MENA region, from nonfictional comics to underground comix and Algerian manga. Most recently, she coedited with Carla Calargé a special issue of Nouvelles Etudes Francophones (34.1) on Francophone graphic works, in which she contributed an article on recent graphic exchanges across the Maghreb, and their renewed relational ethics.