The Manglish pidgin was used for The Kampung Boy, a book of this type by the Malaysian author Lat. Travelogues in this form set in Shenzhen and North Korea were written by Guy Delisle (“ghee duh-LEEL”). A book in this form called Shortcomings is part of the larger series Optic Nerve centering Asian-American characters. A Canadian press abbreviated D+Q publishes books of this type, including a 2022 work documenting its author’s time working the Athabaskan oil sands to pay off student loans. Recent books of this type by Adrian Tomine and Kate Beaton have won Eisner Awards. In a book of this type, a girl listens to Iron Maiden tapes and her Communist uncle Anoosh before going to boarding school in Vienna. For 10 points, what sort of work is Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis? ■END■
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| Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 18 | 10 |
| William Groger | Columbia B | Maryland B | 51 | 10 |
| John Chen | UBC | UW B | 51 | -5 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU A | Missouri | 66 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield | Cambridge C | 72 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago A | 72 | 10 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Durham | 72 | 10 |
| Alice Ton Nu | UW A | Alberta | 72 | -5 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Manchester | 73 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | Penn B | 74 | 10 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | George Washington B | 74 | -5 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | Cornell B | 77 | 10 |
| Louis Cameron | Cambridge E | Warwick B | 79 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU B | Chicago B | 79 | -5 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | William & Mary | 80 | 10 |
| Aum Mundhe | Rutgers A | Columbia C | 88 | 10 |
| Crow He | UNC B | Virginia A | 94 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Penn A | 94 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton B | Bristol | 97 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Cambridge A | 100 | 10 |
| Oscar O'Flanagan | Imperial A | Oxford A | 100 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Brown A | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | NYU B | 107 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard A | 107 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Iowa | 107 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 107 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois B | Illinois A | 107 | 10 |
| Antoni Kluzowski | Warwick A | Cambridge D | 110 | 10 |
| Eliza Dean | Oxford B | Southampton A | 110 | -5 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | UW A | 110 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Wake Forest | 111 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Purdue | 111 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Liberty B | 112 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Missoui S&T | 112 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard B | Tufts A | 112 | 10 |
| Amanda Zhao | Georgetown B | Notre Dame B | 112 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | NYU C | 112 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Northwestern B | 115 | 10 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | UNC C | 120 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | BU | 128 | 10 |
| Ivan Stanisavljevic | Duke | Liberty C | 131 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Oxford B | 131 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Haverford B | 131 | 10 |
| Jay Kim | Chicago B | WashU B | 131 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | UBC | 131 | 10 |