Tag: Graphic Novels

India

Cover of Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability featuring an close up abstract illustration of three people with glasses on and one pointing their finger and their forearm and hand spanning the foreground of the cover. There is a thick dark blue border along the top of the cover that is the same color of the clothing on the arm in the foreground where the title is displayed in white and other text is displayed in orange. Information is also displayed in white on the sleeve of the arm in the foreground.

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability

Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand

Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam (Illustrators)

Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability. Srividya Natarajan and S. Anand. Illustrated by Durgabai Vyam and Subhash Vyam. Navayana, 2011. First published by Navayana Publishing, in India, in 2011. Also available under the title Ambedkar: incidents in the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar from Tate Publishing, London, in 2013. ISBN 9788189059170. 108 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

Cover of Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe featuring an illustration of a determined-looking young girl in a dress next to a nerdy looking minotaur with the body of a human and a cat with three eyes and a building in the background. They are among a lush natural landscape with a body of water and bridge across it in the background with clouds in the sky.

Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe

C.G. Salamander

Rajiv Eipe (Illustrator)

Maithili and the Minotaur: Web of Woe. C. G. Salamander. Illustrated by Rajiv Eipe. Puffin Books, 2021. ISBN 9780143455189. 64 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

Cover for Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection featuring a dramatic pencil illustration of a solitary older woman with a head covering holding a protest sign on a white background with wind-like flourishes around her. The book's title is displayed in red and black.

Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection

Ita Mehrotra

Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection. Ita Mehrotra. Yoda Press, 2021. First published in India. ISBN 9789382579786. 127 p. (Ages 10 and up). Graphic Novel.

China & Taiwan

China
Cover of My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder featuring an illustration of what appears to be a mailman on a bike with a young child riding with him. They are biking through an alleyway lined with trees and ornate houses.

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder

Nie Jun

Edward Gauvin (Translator)

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder. Nie Jun. Translated from French and Chinese by Edward Gauvin. Graphic Universe, 2018. First published as Les contes de la ruelle in French, in 2016. ISBN 9781541526426., 128 p. (Ages 7-11). Fiction.

The Middle East & North Africa

Israel
Cover for From Foe to Friend featuring an illustration of a man sitting at an open window with green shutters writing on an piece of paper with, unbeknownst to him, a ghost on the outskirts of the window frame with a brown leaf at his tale and a piece of paper in his hand and a goat below the frame looking up at the ghost. There's a frame around the scene and the background is different shades of yellow. The title on the cover is green like the window's shutters.

From Foe to Friend & Other Stories

S.Y. Agnon

Shay Charka (Illustrator)

From Foe to Friend & Other Stories. S.Y. Agnon. A graphic novel by Shay Charka. Translated and adapted by Jeffrey Saks. The Toby Press, 2014. Originally published as Shay veAgnon: Sheloshah Sippurim in Hebrew by Schocken Publishing House Ltd., in Tel Aviv, in 2012. ISBN 9781592643950. 48 p. (Ages 12 and up). Graphic novel.

Latin America

Argentina
Cover for Written and Drawn by Henrietta featuring an illustration of a young girl at a table with a cat looking up at her from behind her while she draws crayon-like cartoonish drawings on a giant piece of paper. The book's title is also stylized like a child's crayon drawing.

Written and Drawn by Henrietta

Ricardo Liniers

Written and Drawn by Henrietta. Ricardo Liniers. Translated by the author. TOON Books, 2015. Also available in Spanish as Escrito y dibujado por Enriqueta. ISBN 9781935179900. 64 p. (Ages 5-7). Early chapter book.

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