Kabul Disco #2

Nicolas Wild's autobiographical graphic novel plants you right in the middle of Afghanistan with a subtitle that says it all: How I Managed Not to Get Addicted to Opium in Afghanistan. The cover shows a man in a pink shirt working with a hoe beside a bowl of what appears to be harvested poppies, while a looming grey figure watches from the foreground — a quietly surreal image that balances the mundane and the unsettling with Wild's clean, appealing ligne claire style. Published by Humanoids in 2018, this is personal journalism drawn with wit and honesty.