Lissa

“A dizzying, gripping, and beautiful journey into the world of medicine and mortality—not just its complex emotional universe, but the political realities that structure it too… including, most urgently, the imaginations of a younger generation still fighting for an alternative future.”

—Jack Shenker, author of The Egyptians: A Radical Story

“I would, without hesitation, deem Lissa required reading for anyone interested in the Egyptian revolution, but also for anyone interested in the complexities of being human and being alive in the twenty-first century.”

—Ganzeer, Egyptian revolutionary street artist/author

“...a spectacular way to inaugurate the breakthrough ethnoGRAPHIC series. Lissa offers a compelling entry into how issues of illness, mortality, and decisions around them are always shaped in the particulars of history and politics. Bravo!”

—Faye Ginsburg, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History at New York University

“…brilliant storytelling and stunning scholarship.”

—Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph.D., author of Sexing the Body

“Filled with vivid characters who cry, bleed, and hope, Lissa offers an intimate and powerful understanding of contemporary medicine and politics.”

—Emmanuel Guibert, author of The Photographer

“Lissa, a brilliant fictional account of organ failure, genetic testing, and organ transplantation, is portrayed in manga-like images. Human encounters, political events, and, above all, memories explode in time and space across the pages. A must-read for our alarming times.”

—Margaret Lock, Ph.D., author of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

“...a tangled and controversial journey through injustice and disease, infused with a healthy dose of revolutionary spirit along the way.”

—Mohamed and Haitham Raafat El-seht, Twins Cartoon

“A visually compelling and sensitively presented work that demonstrates how juxtaposing sequential art with narrative can render extremely complex global processes and phenomena into a gripping human story.”

—Benjamin Dix, SOAS, University of London, Director, PositiveNegatives (positivenegatives.org)

“So accessible is the image/text language of comics that it frequently manages to cross all sorts of borders: national, cultural, and generational. Lissa utilizes the medium to the fullest, weaving the complexities of friendship, illness, and faith together in a way that bridges cultures and dispels misconceptions, while offering a narrative that engages readers to the very end.”

—Lina Ghaibeh, Professor of Animation and Comics, American University of Beirut

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