Coquelicots d'Irak

Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim’s Coquelicots d'Irak is a poignant, autobiographical graphic novel from the Quebec-based publisher Pow Pow, released as a single, complete volume in 2016. The work recounts Findakly’s childhood in 1960s and 1970s Iraq, tracing her family’s life amid political upheaval and the eventual exodus of its Christian minority. Through understated, gently humorous vignettes and Trondheim’s clean, expressive art, the book offers a deeply personal perspective on displacement, memory, and the fragile beauty of everyday life in a changing homeland. It stands as a quietly essential work of modern memoir comics, celebrated for its intimate, unsentimental portrayal of a lost world.