Friday 28 August 2015

Travel comics from South Caucasus


A page from Aino Sutinen's book of travel comics
Aino Sutinen (born 1983) has published a book on her travels in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. It is in Finnish, with English subtitles on every page. 

Vaimoksi vuorille – Reppumatkasarjakuvia Etelä-Kaukasiasta 
Mountain Wife – Backpacking Comics from the South Caucasus
120 pages (Neon Tunisia, 2015)

This is a charming book. Aino Sutinen seeks out the less-trodden paths without making it into an extreme sport. She seems to easily establish rapport with people and writes about them with open curiosity and kindness. This is a refreshing attitude after several travel comics (mostly by men) where the traveller often portrays himself in terms of heroic endurance among locals.

Aino Sutinen has travelled, as it were, on our behalf and joyfully shares her experience with all of us. Read the album and enjoy!

More information:  http://aino.sarjakuvablogit.com/uusi-kirja-new-book-matkasarjakuvia-travel-comics/

Visit Aino Sutinen's blog with photographs from her trip: http://aino.sarjakuvablogit.com/


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