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`the stories have an enjoyable air of nostalgia about them ... I am looking forward to what Aya does next'
--Daily Telegraph
--Daily Telegraph
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For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time - work is plentiful, hospitals are clean and well equipped, and school is obligatory. The Ivory Coast is as an island of relative wealth and stability in West Africa. For the teenagers of the town, though, worries are plentiful, and life in Yop City is far from simple.
Aya tells the story of its nineteen-year-old heroine, the clear-sighted and bookish Aya, and her carefree and fun-loving friends Adjoua and Bintou. Navigating meddling relatives and neighbours, the girls spend a last summer of their childhood on the sun-warmed streets of Yop City - sneaking out for dancing at open-air bars, strong solibra beer, chicken in peanut sauce and avoiding at all costs the scandal pages of the Calamity Morning....
Aya is a captivating, colourful and hugely entertaining portrayal of an Africa we rarely see, spirited and resilient, and full of the sounds, sights and smells of a prosperous town and its varied inhabitants.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Golden book...,
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This review is from: Aya of Yop City (Hardcover)
Aha, this is volume two of the wonderful graphic novel series and finds our heroine Aya continuing her role as the calm hub at the centre of some wild comic goings on.Not to give the story away... (see vol1)... but the baby is born and who will claim paternity? As I said in a review of vol 1 this is almost Shakesperean in its comic mastery, and the drawings are even better than they were in volume 1. The unfortunate Moussa gets a job. Herve wants to spell and will Aya enter a beauty competition? What is so heart warming about this series is the time and care taken over the artwork... all sorts of special details and subtle effects. I think we have here a modest legend in the making. Indispensable, for anyone who might have read other graphic novel classics like Maus, Persopolis, Alison Bechdel's Fun House and Dykes to watch out for. But all this with an African twist. Golden, heart-warming, life affirming. What is there not to love, o?
2.0 out of 5 stars
All families are dreary in the same way,
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This review is from: Aya of Yop City (Hardcover)
I read the first Aya book after several years of avoiding comics and really enjoyed it. The artwork was fresh, the story (though somewhat soap opera-ish) was enjoyable, and the world seemed familiar to Westerners yet distinctively African. I picked this sequel up after a few years of reading hundreds and hundreds of comic books and found it to be not at all what I was expecting it to be.The artwork is ok but the story is just too slight to make up an entire book. Aya is an independent woman who isn't throwing her life away too early by becoming a single mother and then abandoning hope of a career or a life outside of Yop City. Commendable but then she doesn't really do much else but observe her friends and family doing the opposite. Her friend is pregnant - but who's the father? Her dad's having an affair! And that's about it. Some romantic misunderstandings and it feels very much like a comic book version of your average soap - slight, brainless, and ultimately a waste of time. I wanted to like this series but having discovered a wealth of comic books available that offer far more substantial content, I've found that "Aya of Yop City" isn't one of them. Better comic books: "Habibi" by Craig Thompson, "War Stories" by Garth Ennis, "Transmetropolitan" by Warren Ellis, "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken" by Seth, "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel, "Hark a Vagrant!" by Kate Beaton, "Paying for It" by Chester Brown.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Charming and Clever,
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This review is from: Aya (Hardcover)
As a white man in his early twenties living in the western world, I could be accused of being patronizing by saying that "Aya is a lovely introductry account of what it is to live in Africa". But simply, it is. This is such an absorbing and heart warming story of a young woman in Yopougon during the Ivory Coast's great boom in culture and industry. We're treated to the daily comings and goings of the studious and steadfast Aya and the amusing attitudes and indiscretions of her friends and family. But this isn't all sunshine and charm, there is a regular element of transition running throughout this book and in the next two sequels which I've also read; the transition of Aya into an independent young woman whilst her friends dither, the crumbling and re-building of the inter-personal relationships of all around her and the very temporary nature of the Ivory Coast's prosperity - these factors add a very real political undertone to this radiant village story.Sublime, colourful and shrewdly written this is one not to overlook.
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