In Aya, his first comic, Oubrerie’s warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing. A drummer in a funk band in his spare time, he still travels frequently, especially to the Ivory Coast. With over forty children’s books to his credit, he is also cofounder of the 3D animation studio Station OMD. Back in France, he went on to a prolific career in illustration. After a stint in art school he spent two years in the United States doing a variety of odd jobs, publishing his first children’s books and serving jail time in New Mexico for working without papers. Books by Marguerite Abouet Aya: Love in Yop City: Love in Yop City. It taps into Abouet’s childhood memories of Ivory Coast in the 1970s, a prosperous, promising time in that country’s history, to tell an unpretentious and gently humorous story of an Africa we rarely see-spirited, hopeful, and resilient.Ĭlément Oubrerie was born in Paris in 1966. She lives in Romainville, a suburb of Paris, where she works as a legal assistant and writes novels she has yet to show to publishers. At the age of twelve, she was sent with her older brother to study in France under the care of a great uncle. Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 1971. Our favorite troublemaker is back in this graphic novel collection of wild childhood adventures set on the Ivory Coast by award-winning author Marguerite Abouet (Aya of Yop City) and artist Mathieu.
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