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Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 1971. Following the tremendous success of her comics Aya of Yop City, Marguerite Abouet now dedicates all of her time to writing. Akissi is based on her own childhood. Mathieu Sapin was born in Dijon, France, in 1974. He studied in l'Ecole supe rieure des Arts De coratifs de Strasbourg before becoming a renowned illustrator for many children's magazines and publishers in France.Akissi is an absolute joy... her world is real, rounded, full of warmth and humour.
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If you've yet to experience Abouet and Sapin's depiction of Ivory Coast life I cannot recommend this series more highly. In these most difficult of times books like Akissi are a beacon of joyous light in the darkness of reality.
- Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
The brightly-coloured mayhem of the Akissi series is a strong favourite on my university course in children's books, and anyone with young readers at home will know how popular gross-out, laugh-out-loud graphic novels are with eight to 12-year-olds.
Marguerite Abouet's stories are inspired by her own childhood in the Ivory Coast. Accompanied by Mathieu Sapin's frenetic drawings, they offer a joyful, messy, real vision of African life.
As one student put it: "I loved this book - it reminded me of my family's stories of life in Mauritius."
- Sophie Heywood (Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing), The Conversation