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Graphic Literature

The General
By Nicolas Wild
It's the good stuff. Afghani.
Translated by Edward Gauvin
Jeanine
By Matthias Picard
That night, it was a Ford that stopped.
Translated by Edward Gauvin
My Cloud
By Mazen Kerbaj
Translated by the author
Tongue-tied
By Li-Chin Lin
© Editons çà et là, 2011. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel Agency. Translation © 2013 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.
Translated by Edward Gauvin
A Shining Path of Blood: Massacres and a Monologue
By Jesús Cossio
Translated by Gabriel Saxton-Ruiz
Ladybirds’ Requiem
By Akino Kondoh
Translated by Jocelyne Allen
from “The Art of Flying”
By Antonio Altarriba
Translated by Adrian West
My Mother Was a Very Beautiful Woman
By Karlien de Villiers
© Editions çà et là, 2010. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel Agency. All rights reserved.
Translated by Marilyn August
Mean Folk: The Story of a Movement
By Étienne Davodeau
Translated by Mercedes Claire Gilliom
The Last of the Bunch
By Migo Rolzz
You're young and I don't want my feelings to get hurt!
Translated by Chip Rossetti
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Palindrome
By François Ayroles
© François Ayroles. By arrangement with the author. Translation © 2013 by Matt Madden. All rights reserved.
Translated by Matt Madden
Acrostic
By Killoffer
© Killoffer. By arrangement with the author. Translation © 2013 by Matt Madden. All rights reserved.
Translated by Matt Madden
Counting on You
By Etienne Lécroart
Translated by Matt Madden
False Faces: An Imagined Life of the Wig Gang
By David B. & Hervé Tanquerelle
“Remember that safe I carried off with Adjaj and Bernard and opened at my dad’s?”
Translated by Edward Gauvin
November 2012 Banned Chinese Writers Sharing Xie Peng Duncan Jepson Feature
Sharing
By Xie Peng & Duncan Jepson
I wanted it too . . . I would have given anything
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We Have
By Mazen Kerbaj
We have nations that we don't want.
Translated from French by the author
from “Morti di Sonno”
By Davide Reviati
“If one of those things explodes, the city’ll blow up too.”
Translated from Italian by Jamie Richards
from “Etenesh”
By Paolo Castaldi
“When we get to Tripoli, you're on your own.”
Translated from Italian by Maaza Mengiste
This is How it is When You’re Involved with Sensitive Girls
By Ilana Zeffren
Translated by Ilana Zeffren
from “The International”
By Roannie & Oko
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
from “Les Mohameds”
By Jérôme Ruillier
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
A Great Step Forward: Memoir of the Famine
By Li Kunwu & Philippe Ôtié
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
from “The Eternonaut,” Part II
By Héctor G. Oesterheld & Francisco Solano López
Translated from Spanish by Erica Mena
Letter to the Mother
By Mazen Kerbaj
Translated from French by Mazen Kerbaj & Ahmad Gharbieh
Demonsterate
By Nawel Louerrad
Translated from French by Canan Marasligil
Romanticism
By Krysztof Gawronkiewicz
Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Eternonaut
By Héctor G. Oesterheld & Francisco Solano López
The Eternonaut is a seminal work of Latin American literature. It’s been translated from Spanish into Italian and French, but never (until now) English. This section is taken from the original version…
Translated from Spanish by Erica Mena
December 2011 Fantastic Iranian Metamorphosis Mana Neyestani Feature
An Iranian Metamorphosis
By Mana Neyestani
Write why you drew that cartoon and why you chose a Turkish word.
Translated from Persian by Ghazal Mosadeq
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Catharina Margaretha Linck
from “Reunion”
By jmcphee
From Reunion. Copyright 2011 by Pascal Girard. Published 2011 by Drawn & Quarterly, Montreal. By arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster, part three
By Anna Weidenholzer & Tess Lewis
The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster, part two
By Brendan Hughes & Caroline Shin
Translation copyright 2011 by Heinz Insu Fenkl. All rights reserved.
Translated by Boris Fishman
Two Million People in the Square: Scenes from the Revolution
By Magdy El Shafee
The people say: Step down now!
Translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies
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War Rabbit
By Rutu Modan & Igal Sarna
Translated from Hebrew by G. H. Freedman
The Story of Serafima Andreyevna
From Quaderni Ucraini. Copyright 2010 by Igort. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel. Translation copyright 2011 by Jamie Richards. All rights reserved.
Translated from Italian
from “Malamine”
By Christophe Ngalle Edimo & Simon-Pierre Mbumbo
From Malamine, un africain à Paris, by Christophe-Ngalle Edimo and Simon-Pierre Mbumbo. Published 2009 by Éditions Les Enfants Rouges. Copyright 2009 by Éditions Les Enfants Rouges. By arrangement with…
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
from “A Taste of Paradise”
From Le goût du paradis, by Nine Antico. Copyright 2010 by Nine Antico. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel. Translation copyright 2011 by Anjali Singh. All rights reserved.
The Cat’s Coming (in a Left-Handed Version)
By Chihoi
Translation of “Zuopiezi manhuazhi mao laile.” Copyright Chihoi 2005. By arrangement with the author and Joint Publications. Translation copyright 2011 by Steve Bradbury. All rights reserved.
Translated from Chinese by Steve Bradbury
from “Rébétiko (la mauvaise herbe)”
From Rébétiko (la mauvaise herbe). Published 2009 by Futuropolis. Copyright 2009 by Futuropolis. By arrangement with the publisher. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel for the Sylvain Coissard Agency,…
The Secret of Frequency A: An Incredible Disaster
The Secret of Frequency A is another example of the “North Korea as world savior” genre of comic books. North Korea has been active in Africa for decades, unbeknownst to the typical American (you can…
Translated by Saskia Vogel
Farniente
By Lewis Trondheim
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
From “Diary”
By Fabrice Neaud
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
From “Baudelaire, the Metaphysical Ostrich”
By Marco Arnaudo & Paolo Di Tonno
Translated from Italian by Jamie Richards
From “Proud Beggars”
By Albert Cossery & Golo
What does a man need to live? A bit of bread is enough.
Translated from French by Lulu Norman
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From “King-Ma Has Come”
By Wei Tsung-cheng
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”
By Blutch
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
From “Farm 54”
By Galit Seliktar & Gilad Seliktar
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”
By Marc Legendre
Translated from Dutch by David Colmer
From “A Game for Swallows”
By Zeina Abirached
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
Letter to Survivors
By Gébé
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
Blizzard in the Jungle, Part Two
By Ri Chol-Geun & Jo Hak-Rae
Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl & Geesu Lee
Paradise . . . Kind of
By Troub’s
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, but also…
Translated from French by Edward Gauvin
Against Comics
© 2008 Gerner & L’Association. Published by arrangement with L’Association. Translation © 2009 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.
Blizzard in the Jungle, Part Three
Translation copyright 2009 by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Geesu Lee. All rights reserved.
Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl & Geesu Lee
February 2009 Graphic Lit Tetsu Yamanote Line Osamu Tezuka Feature
Tetsu of the Yamanote Line
By Osamu Tezuka
He’s a pickpocket. I want his fingers to be agile enough he’ll be able to ‘work’ again.
Translated from Japanese by Camellia Nieh
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February 2009 Graphic Lit Drifting Life Yoshihiro Tatsumi Feature
From “A Drifting Life”
By Yoshihiro Tatsumi
The genius behind all those great works is sitting right next to me! Strange he doesn’t seem at all different from any other young guy…
Translated from Japanese by Taro Nettleton
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Blizzard in the Jungle
By Ri Chol-Geun & Jo Hak-Rae
Since the ideology and values conveyed in children’s books tend to be relatively transparent in all cultures, I hope this excerpt from Blizzard in the Jungle gives a useful glimpse into the self-representation…
Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl & Geesu Lee
Kaspar
By Diane Obomsawin
Translated from French by Helge Dascher
Il Maiale: The Pig
By Riccardo Falcinelli
Author’s Note: “The Pig” is an allegorical short story, but its scope is not so restricted as it may seem at first. It would be more correctly defined as a “civil” story,…
Translated from Italian by Marta Poggi
Waltz with Bashir
By Ari Folman
Translated from Hebrew by David Polonsky