Aya
Written by Marguerite Abouet
Art by Clement Oubrerie
$19.95
Drawn & Quarterly
Written by Marguerite Abouet
Art by Clement Oubrerie
$19.95
Drawn & Quarterly
I’m a comic book advocate. Not just a fan. But an advocate. I believe in the medium more than movies or television. I believe in its’ range. Its’ diversity. Its’ abilities. It encompasses all the best qualities of any medium. Its’ weaknesses are purely its’ own.
Part of the reason I started doing these articles was to, kind of, rediscover the medium. Reconfirm what I felt it was capable of. Discover sides of the medium that make it unique and stronger than others.
Books like “Aya” could, probably, only exist in the comics industry. Largely because it is a satirical, slice-of-life story set in the Ivory Coast. It deals heavily in romantic entanglement, knowledgeable soap opera twist, and the effects hierarchy plays on all these things.
Aspiring doctor and teenager, Aya, is our main character, but she is a casual observer to lust, blind dates, infidelity, teen pregnancy, and arranged marriages.
Writer, Marguerite Abouet, manages to walk a fine line, creating a story with material that is sexual in nature but never raunchy. Just amicable and filled with a range of characters.
If you are looking for something diverse out of the industry then Aya is a pleasant addition to the medium, a story populated with black faces of that would have been dissected, miscast, and treated stereotypically if found in another medium.
Part of the reason I started doing these articles was to, kind of, rediscover the medium. Reconfirm what I felt it was capable of. Discover sides of the medium that make it unique and stronger than others.
Books like “Aya” could, probably, only exist in the comics industry. Largely because it is a satirical, slice-of-life story set in the Ivory Coast. It deals heavily in romantic entanglement, knowledgeable soap opera twist, and the effects hierarchy plays on all these things.
Aspiring doctor and teenager, Aya, is our main character, but she is a casual observer to lust, blind dates, infidelity, teen pregnancy, and arranged marriages.
Writer, Marguerite Abouet, manages to walk a fine line, creating a story with material that is sexual in nature but never raunchy. Just amicable and filled with a range of characters.
If you are looking for something diverse out of the industry then Aya is a pleasant addition to the medium, a story populated with black faces of that would have been dissected, miscast, and treated stereotypically if found in another medium.
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