Cicatrix Beehive Books and Ripley are five rad

and Ripley are five rad

Boys become friends

(The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them

‘Riad Sattouf is one of the great creators of our time’ Alain de Botton

and laugh out loud funny

Cicatrix Beehive Books and Ripley are five radBy Elle. Published by Silver Sprocket. Softcover, 48 pages, Colour, 2022. A powerful study in introspection, inheritance, and the manifestation of hypochondria by a talented indie cartoonist. Beautifully illustrated and poignantly told, the author investigates the guilt they carry as a young Filipino person born into a family that benefited from the Marcos regime, and how that materializes within the physical body.