Esther’s Notebooks: Tales from my ten-year-old life Lauren Poor Gene understands stories—comic book stories

Gene understands stories—comic book stories

By Kate Beaton

It also gives readers a taste of the new French undergound in comics

was a graphic novel phenomenon

and a 1998 coming-out tale in this remarkable intergenerational graphic novel

Esther’s Notebooks: Tales from my ten-year-old life Lauren Poor Gene understands stories—comic book storiesBy Riad Sattouf. Published by Pushkin Press. Softcover, 56 pages, Colour, 2021 (originally published in French in 2016) The French bestselling graphic novel, from the author of The Arab of the Future Riad Sattouf is one of the great creators of our time Alain de Botton My name is Esther and Im 10 years old. I told Riad Sattouf 52 really interesting and totally true stories about me (my family, my friends, my life and all that) and he made this super