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Emmanuel Guibert’s *The Photographer* offers a stark and moving account of a Doctors Without Borders photographic mission to Afghanistan in 1986. The graphic novel utilizes mixed media elements alongside Guibert's original photographs to portray the realities faced by medical personnel during intens...
"Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope" is a biographical graphic memoir created by French artist Emmanuel Guibert, published in English by First Second Books in 2008. The book chronicles the life and military service of Alan Cope, a young American soldier who deployed to Europe during World Wa...
"American Born Chinese" is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Gene Luen Yang, published by First Second Books in 2006. The narrative intertwines three distinct storylines: a retelling of the Chinese myth of the Monkey King, the experiences of a young Asian-American teenager navigating adoles...
"Kampung Boy" is an autobiographical graphic novel by Malaysian cartoonist Lat, originally published in 1979. The book chronicles the author's early childhood experiences growing up in a traditional rural village, or kampung, in the state of Perak during the 1950s. Through detailed black-and-white i...
"Town Boy" is an autobiographical graphic novel by the Malaysian cartoonist Lat, serving as the sequel to his acclaimed 1979 work, "Kampung Boy." The narrative follows the author's transition from a rural village to the bustling town of Ipoh during his adolescence, documenting his experiences in a m...
Anya's Ghost is a 2011 young adult graphic novel written and illustrated by Vera Brosgol. It follows Anya, a Russian American teenager struggling with school, family, body image, and cultural identity, who befriends the ghost of a girl after falling into an abandoned well. What begins as companionsh...
