My article on the graphic novel Aya appears in this week's PW Comics Week. This is a great book. Set in Ivory Coast in the 1970s, it follows the lives of several teenage girls and their families. The author, Marguerite Abouet, originally from Ivory Coast herself, wanted to show a different side of Africa that than the one of war, poverty, and illness usually seen in Europe and America.
In other news, I went to see Steve Earle at the Blue Note on Tuesday. He is really a charismatic performer. Who knew that country boy and his wife now live in Greenwich Village? He is in love with neighborhood in an adorable way--he kept talking about at the historic sites around the Blue Note, like the house where John Reed wrote Ten Days that Shook the World. I love it when people love New York. Lefty to the core, he kept the anti-war patter going, to a pretty receptive audience. Maybe that is why he left Nashville for New York.
Speaking of Greenwich Village, there was a shootout just blocks from my house that left three people dead. Yikes.
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