The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara Engine are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old mythologies, these comics delve into strange architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak. Painted in rich, sepia-toned watercolours and showcasing a series of fraught, darkly humorous, and seemingly alien worlds, Som captures the weight of twenty-first century life as we hurl ourselves forward into the unknown.

Apsara Engine

Comics & Graphic Novels

Som, Bishakh

Graphic Novels

The Feminist Press at CUNY

The meticulous artwork of transgender artist Bishakh Som gives us the rare opportunity to see the world through another lens. This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical narrative, this book gives us the opportunity to enter into the author's daily life and explore her thoughts on themes of gender and sexuality, memory and urbanism, love and loss.

Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

Street Noise Books

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Books by Som, Bishakh

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Apsara Engine

Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir