Aya
Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie (illustrator)
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“Aya and her friends grow up in a big city. Côte D’Ivoire was pretty wealthy at the time, at least in the urban areas. But the main character in this story are working class. They go out, they go to dances. One of them gets pregnant. It’s an incredible imagining of these things. When Marguerite Abouet wanted to write about her life, she was really inspired by Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, which is perhaps the best-known classroom-friendly graphic history of all (even more so than Art Spiegelman’s Maus, which is getting banned in the US now). Although Marjane Satrapi comes from Iran, she was living in France, and she created a very French-style comic.” Read more...
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