Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie’s Aya series starts in the Ivory Coast 1978. Aya is a young woman with dreams of becoming a medical doctor. The episodic story moves through her and her friends lives as they experience setbacks, love, and ambitions as they grow into adults.
Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed’s When Stars are Scattered tells Mohamed’s story of growing up in a Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Omar and his younger brother Hassan escaped Somalia when his family’s farm was attacked during the ongoing civil war.
Trickster Native American Tales: A Graphic Collection is an anthology filled with a variety of trickster tales. The tales range from teaching morals and understanding the Earth.
Andrea Ferraris and Renato Chiocca’s The Scar uses the comic form to report on their experience at the border wall between the USA and Mexico. For all that is covered in the book, it is a short piece of “graphic reportage.”
