What a fun and beautiful comic!  Filled to the brim with beautiful illustrations and text serving only to continue the narrative where the illustrations cannot, Yasmina and the Potato Eaters is an incredible comic about community, surviving in poverty, and critiquing capitalist endeavors.  

Yasmina is a fun-loving, food-loving cook who creates incredible gourmet meals, and each character we meet along the way holds various opinions and manners of interacting with food.  Is natural best?  Do pesticides work?  What's best--community-run or capitalist-run?  What can we learn from vegetables?  What can we learn from their production?

I would love to introduce this to my professor--there's so much to think about in terms of environmental criticism and ecofeminism, and a lot can be gleaned from this text.  Overall, this is fun, gorgeous, and really educational!  I'm excited to see where this tale goes and to see how it expands.

A whimsical, food-focused adventure, beautifully written and illustrated. I’m hooked on the story and I can’t wait to read part 2!

The artstyle was pure beauty, all the meals and vegetables made me hungry ! Yasmina is such a cute character,I would love to encounter more characters like her in my other readings, and the banter between Cyril and Marco was hilarious.

My heart is full of warmth and I can't describe the joy that I feel after seeing Muslim representation in this. Yasmina is a spirited and creative little girl that loves to cook everyday - even if it means doing a little sneaking into the neighboor's garden to do it. It was honestly so beautiful to see how she always cooked for her father and how her father reacted to eating her food. I also really enjoyed the artwork and would have loved to see more dialogue between the characters. The ending of part 1 left me wanting more, so I'll definitely be looking into reading part 2 once it comes out!

However, i would like to note that I didn't read the synopsis before diving into this ( and I'm glad I didn't ) because I later realized that it spoiled part 1 entirely.

The description of this book in Goodreads, as well as the publishers site, gives away too much about the first volume of this book, and then you will feel disappointed about where it stops.

Yasmina loves to cook, while those aorund her would rather eat french fries. In fact, her father works in a french frie joint, and doesn't partake in their food, as his daughter makes him lunch every day.

This book stops to soon, just as we get to the crux of the matter, and so it is hard to judge how good this series is going to be. But based on the run up to the cliff hanger, I am hoping that this young heroine overcomes the potatoes that threaten to take over everything


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In the meantime, this is a good start to what I hope is a great story about growing and eating healthy.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Yasmina is eleven years old, and lives with her dad in a small, city apartment. Daily life is fairly non-descript aside from her budding culinary talent. Yasmina can make almost anything in her kitchen, relying on goods from her community garden plot. On one eventful day, the garden is obliterated by heavy machinery and replaced by a field of potatoes. Bland as vegetables go, however, as scenes unfold, the reader discovers with Yasmina, that these potatoes are more than they seem. Are they engineered to be addictive and do they fall in the realm of science experiment? This story opens the door for conversations around the planet we live on, the food we eat, and stewardship, alongside a strong heroine and exciting adventure that is pure fun to read.

I love the moments where the narrative is nearly wordless, and we are left with the images. The prologue of the book works largely this way. In other places, the images take up entire pages, but are also broken down into meaningful segments.

The art is attractive and the story is human and entertaining. Sometimes four, sometimes eleven, smaller images make up a page. This makes for a new way of approaching each page. The dialogue works with a similar variability.


The book is colorful and the protagonist, Yasmina, is a great young adult character. Perfect for comic book and graphic novel enthusiasts of many ages.

There wasn’t anything really wrong with this book. The art style was nice and everything was simplistic. But I personally I didn’t like it. I don’t like graphic novels that do not have dialogue.

Excellent art style and interesting characters in a wonderful narrative arc. This was a real winner from the first page.

Yasmina is a passionate cook with a love for experimentation. When her vegetable sources get plowed over in sweeping commercialization, she finds herself looking for another solution.

The charming illustrations combined with Yasmina's feisty character immediately draw the reader in. Can't wait for Vol. 2!

Beautiful ~ Silly ~ Charming
tl; dr: Chef must lie, cheat, and steal; but the perfect recipe is worth it.

This gorgeous graphic novel shows the story of Yasmine maker of lovely food, wearer of a chef's toque. I loved, loved this graphic novel. I do happen to love food and good illustration. But, this book would be fun for a lover of a good story or great graphic novels. I can't recommend this book enough.

Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.