The architecture in these stories is far from being the most significant part of their narratives. There are two graphic novels though, that speculate on architectural pasts instead – Berlinby Jason Lutes and Aya: Life in Yop Cityby Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie.
It’s a science-fiction fantasy series set in a world where humans live in independent city-states, each characterised by a distinctive architectural style. Les Cités Obscures – the Belgian-French graphic novel saga – is in the former category of architectural speculation. It’s also the recording and the critiquing of the urban conditions of either our contemporary cities or the cities of the past. When the comic strip meshes fiction with architectural imagination, however, it’s not only the speculation on future architectural scenarios that takes place. It’s a medium that has long been used to fantasise and speculate on possible architectural futures, or in a less spectacular context, used as a device to simply show the perspectival journey through an architectural project. These are all part of a medium with an intrinsic connection to architectural storytelling. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angoul me 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.The comic strip, la bande dessinée, the graphic novel. Drawn & Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in Abouet's Yop City, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. Cl ment Oubrerie's warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet's vibrant writing. It's a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing 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.
Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi's Cat Ivory Coast, 1978. Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. Num Pages: 382 pages, Full-Colour Illustrations. Description for Aya: Life in Yop City Paperback.
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