Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s Aya: Face the Music is the newest quantity of their standard graphic novel sequence a couple of savvy teenage African lady in Eighties city Côte d’Ivoire and an endearing agglomeration of her household, buddies, fellow college students, and native officers. Now in faculty, Aya is a scholar organizer caught in a campus protest turned violent; her party-girl buddy Bintou is a neighborhood celeb, enjoying a reviled homewrecker on a success TV present; and her shut pal Albert, a closeted homosexual man, has been kidnapped by his father in hopes {that a} village healer can “repair” his sexuality. That’s only for starters! On this 7-page excerpt, Bintou and Aya study of Albert’s plight—he’s stranded within the countryside, instructing a couple of children to learn, and making an attempt to determine a strategy to escape and return to the town. Aya: Face the Music by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie is out now from Drawn & Quarterly.