Other cultures (YA comics)

Authors from different places offer different perspectives and different ways of telling stories and can give us insights into other cultures.

In this list, we're presenting comics and graphic novels that were written by authors from other parts of the world, and there are a fair few memoirs detailing the authors' personal experiences too.

Updated August 1, 2024
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Amazona
Canizales
Paper Book
It's time to stop littering our planet! This gentle series introduces youngreaders to the natural habitats of animals which are being invaded by wasteThere's a fun surprise on every page when, as if by magic, a ketchup bottleor a takeawav box turns into a chick or a cow!
Oxygen mask : a graphic novel
Reynolds, Jason; Griffin, Jason
Paper Book
This visceral graphic novel is a striking memento of 2020 and a moving reminder of the human spirit.
The complete Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Paper Book
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time. <...
American born Chinese
Yang, Gene Luen.
Paper Book
Original Series Now Available on Disney+ A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to...

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