Akissi has a tough life: The neighborhood cats chase her to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou nearly ends up in the cooking pot, and her brother Fofana makes it clear at every opportunity that she is more bothersome to him than a boil on his backside. So what? Akissi isn’t impressed by any of this. In a wonderfully anarchic way, the little bundle of energy explores her surroundings in the Ivorian city of Abidjan—a vibrant, bustling world where social issues are not hidden away. Marguerite Abouet's Akissi is the little sister of Aya from the comic of the same name, which has been published in two volumes by Reprodukt. Graphically inspired by the universe of Clément Oubrerie, the illustrator of "Aya," Mathieu Sapin has given her a distinctive style with a cartoonish flair.