Well, this won’t quite be 10,000 pages, but altogether both editions run to nearly 800 pages of comics, which is something, even in this era of big graphic novels. Tom Spurgeon recently wrote that he is a “fiend” for this material and that he could read 10,000 pages of this stuff. 15 Love Baseball - Aya Tank from Baseballism Texas 30 AYA from Bodega 100 Aya from Revival. And in a few months the entire story will wrap up when Aya: Love in Yop City is in stores (this will be the first time that the latter part of the book is published in English). Aya Life In Yop City from Books With Pictures. Abouet grew up in the 1970’s in the Ivory Coast, and she wanted to write something that would show readers that Africa is not a continent on which nothing but awful things happen.

It’s written by Marguerite Abouet (based in part on her own experiences growing up in the west African nation) and drawn with an elegant and whimsical flair by Clément Oubrerie.Īya: Life in Yop City is the book that collects these first 3 chapters (they have been previously published as individual hardcovers). Aya of Yop City is a series of graphic novels by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Clement Oubrerie. Aya is a lighthearted account of life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country's history. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Children’s Africana Book Award, and the Glyph Award was nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels list, and the Eisner Award and was included on “best of” lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal.Did you know that the first 3 chapters of Aya are now available in one new paperback volume, running at nearly 400 pages in length?Īya is a really fun and engaging story set in late 1970s Ivory Coast. Aya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English. Drawn & Quarterly has release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Aya: Love in Yop City. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in the lively world of Aya and her friends, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. It’s wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City.Ĭlément Oubrerie’s warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet’s youth in Yop City. It’s a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous.

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