From Chaabi (Paris: Futuropolis, 2007). By arrangement with the publisher. Translation copyright 2008 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

From Get a Life (Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2005). By arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.

Copyright 2007 by Mazen Kerbaj. By arrangement with the author. All rights reserved.

Translator's Introduction 1. Reflections on the Manhwabang I 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…

From Haunted. Forthcoming from Drawn and Quarterly. By arrangement with the publisher and with Éditions Cornélius. All rights reserved.

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…

From La Vie de Pahé, by Pahé. © Éditions Paquet, 2007. Rights arranged through the Sylvain Coissard Agency, France. Translation © 2008 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.…

From Road Story (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2004). By arrangement with the publisher. Translation copyright 2008 by Samantha Schnee. All rights reserved. Click here to watch a promotional video.

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

Translation of "Une Enfance Heureuse." Copyright Mazen Kerbaj. By arrangement with the author. Translation copyright 2008 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

From Cuerda de Presas. Copyright © 2001 by Jorge Garcia and Fidel Martinez. Published by agreement with Astiberri ediciones. Translation copyright © 2007 by Anna Kushner. All rights reserved.

First published 1997 as La Bombe Familiale by L'Association. Copyright David B. By arrangement with L'Association. Translation copyright 2007 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

First published 2005 as Essence by Editions Glénat. Copyright 2005 by Editions Glénat/Grzegorz Janusz and Krystof Gawronkiewicz. By arrangement with Glénat. Translation from the original…

First published in Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Köln, 2003-4. Based on Jutta Buchin's documentation, "Women Physicians of the German Empire," the Institute for the History of…

This way over there, you stupid savage.

From Cuerda de Presas. Copyright © 2001 by Jorge Garcia and Fidel Martinez. Published by agreement with Astiberri ediciones. Translation copyright © 2007 by Samantha Schnee. All…

“Sometimes I think I can reach the skies…and no sea would cover my bare knees!”