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The Graphic World: (Worth) Ten Thousand Words, Part II

February 2008

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Excerpt from: Metro. Copyright Magdy El Shafee. Translation copyright 2008 by Humphrey Davies. All rights reserved.

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Run Movie 6: The Duck

By Philippe Dupuy

Translated from French by Helge Dascher

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A Happy Childhood

By Mazen Kerbaj

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

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Figure 1. A politician from the party that now holds the presidential seat, riding the PRI dinosaur, says: "It's about time troops and police enter Oaxaca!"

Their Boots Were Made for Walking: El Taller de la Gráfica Popular

By Carmen Boullosa

“Don’t tell me you want to return to those days without democracy, the PRI’s?”

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

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From “Road Story”

By Alberto Fuguet & Gonzalo Martinez

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

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From “Great General Mighty Wing”

By Cho Pyŏng Kwŏn & Lim Wal-Yong

Translator’s Introduction1. Reflections on the ManhwabangI grew up in South Korea in the 1960s during the Park Chung-hee years, back in the day when comic books, or manhwa, were classified as one…

Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl

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From “Metro”

By Magdy El Shafee

Magdy El Shafee’s Metro, the first adult Arabic graphic novel, is set in a chaotic modern Cairo pulsing with financial and social insecurity. Shihab, a young software designer who has been forced…

Translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies

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From “Rabbit on the Road”

The island lights look like the stars came down from the sky and queued up.

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee

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From “Life of Pahé”

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin