Review! This Beautiful, Ridiculous City – Kay Sohini @kaysohini.bsky.social Takes a Resonant Personal Journey through New York in this Standout Graphic Memoir. www.brokenfrontier.com/this-beautif...

the Post news is gutting for many reasons, but I can’t help focusing on the books section—how great it was, and how essential. So many worthy books barely get reviewed. I’ve had authors reach out to thank me because mine was the only post-pub coverage they got. Just awful for readers & for writers.

"We’re witnessing a murder," writes @ashleyrparker.bsky.social. "Jeff Bezos ... and Will Lewis, the publisher he appointed at the end of 2023, are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

My little book?!

#Libfaves25 Day 6: THIS BEAUTIFUL RIDICULOUS CITY by Kay Sohini I feel like books that release early in the year often get lost on these best of lists. Make sure Kay's beautiful memoir - and love letter to a city, something we don't see much of anymore - is on your radar.

Me, last Fall: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v3h9j...

My review of four new graphic novels in the today’s Washington Post, edited by Jacob Brogan. Gift link: wapo.st/3TZauRy

This Beautiful Ridiculous City now has a study guide made by the good folks at @newamericanhistory.bsky.social! resources.newamericanhistory.org/this-beautif...

So happy to see this out in the world!

Spotted in the wild @kaysohini.bsky.social's graphic memoir (among the classics) at the Book Hive in Norwich

when I say "finished This Beautiful, Ridiculous City" I mean I read it on one day (Monday 19th May) and I enjoyed it *so so much* that post-colonial experience HITS, ok??? #BookSky 💙📚

Found out that THIS BEAUTIFUL RIDICULOUS CITY is one of the most sold books to public libraries! 😮

For @washingtonpost.com, I illustrated an interactive comic about how auroras appear in our skies. Words and science by Kasha Patel. Art direction by Hannah Good, and brought to life by Emily Wright and Emma Kumer. Had so much fun collaborating, imagining, and drawing this piece. wapo.st/4k84ktF

Coming soon-our newest collaboration with @kaysohini.bsky.social !  #FreeComicBookDay

Curated this list of Spring 2025 Graphic Novels with Jacob Brogan for The Washington Post. What fun! wapo.st/4kZBFrM

Graphic Novel Review: THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY is the literary graphic memoir you’ve been looking for This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is Kay Sohini's new graphic memoir about her experiences moving to New York City, and so much more.

Wonderful panel at #MoCCA on the past and present of NYC featuring @mattielubchansky.com @kaysohini.bsky.social & Frances Jetter moderated by @comixace.bsky.social

This is tomorrow!

9. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini. Rec: @gauravsabnis.bsky.social Graphic memoir presents such a fascinating opportunity to blend text and images. Kay Sohini’s debut is everything you want in a graphic memoir: vivid, captivating, bittersweet, reflective. Read: @libbyapp.bsky.social

Happening next week‼️ If you haven't yet read @kaysohini.bsky.social's book, I HIGHLY recommend it. Lots to talk about‼️

Hey @kaysohini.bsky.social, check out the company your book is keeping in the wild!!!! @nsousanis.bsky.social (among other greats!) at McNally Jackson Books

Finally picked up this beautiful book by @kaysohini.bsky.social. Whole family is into it!

Flipping through the third issue of SPECTRUM (plus a bonus surprise), which comes out February 19th! Very proud of this issue, published by @madcavestudios.com written by @riqkquinn.bsky.social with art by me. 📷

Fabulous review of @kaysohini.bsky.social's This Beautiful, Ridiculous City. Maureen Corrigan writes that Sohini's graphic memoir "affirms the enduring power of New York & the power of literature to give people the courage to cross all manner of borders." www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

My book buddies do not disappoint. Spread the word about this beautiful, thought-provoking, evocative book! I even gave it to my mum who has never read a graphic novel in her life. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini. @kaysohini.bsky.social #booksky #bookrecommendation

“Visually, “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City” is a tour de force…The effect is a work of careful artisanship rivaling some of Sohini’s self-professed mentors and guides in comics storytelling: Alison Bechdel and Kristen Radtke and Thi Bui.” —Tahneer Oksman, The Washington Post.

A reviewer just accused me of using "Computer effects" to make my art. People who know me have seen me develop my style over the years. I have all the Procreate files with dozens of layers to prove everything is hand drawn!! I know bad reviews come with the territory. But this is unacceptable.

Started...Going: finished intro to the book on teaching w/Unflattening! My thumbnails from last April & when I went to make the actual pages in Nov/Dec & realized usable page dimensions were 4x7"! An additional challenge, but geeked at how it came together! I think the book comes out in spring...

Absolutely adored this beautiful, moving graphic novel by @kaysohini.bsky.social - about the author falling in love with New York through cinema, TV and great writers and what we leave behind when we move country… #booksky #newyork

My book has now been reviewed by NPR Fresh Air! The attention TBRC has been getting is beyond what I could have ever hoped for. So grateful to everyone who led me here. And my parents, for surrounding me with books growing up, despite everything gnarly life threw at them. www.npr.org/2025/02/06/n...

Excited to share that the book launch for my debut book THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY which has received praise from The Washington Post, AP News, Financial Times, etc, will be held at the SNFL branch of the New York Public Library on February 27. The event is free and open to all.

Hello from a day of too many meetings but impeccable sunshine!

Doodles

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City in the Sunday Washington Post! 😊

Columbia disaster was the first time I cried as an adult in front of someone. Mostly for Kalpana Chawala. She was such a real time inspiration! Indian, woman, immigrant, engineer, astronaut! Real life superhero! Gone too early. @kaysohini.bsky.social made this www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Spotted in the wild at @comixexperience.bsky.social - congratulations @kaysohini.bsky.social for your beautiful (& not at all ridiculous) debut! I strongly recommend this smart & gorgeous book! But don’t take my word for it - look at the blurbs! (and ooh, from Isabel Greenberg too- I love her work!)

Coming up today on the show: We’ll be talking with two of the founders of the Blue Man group It’s the 25th anniversary of D’Angelo’s “Voodoo” 😍 Lloyd Rose of “Island Vegan” is here 🌱 We’ll learn @kaysohini.bsky.social’s coming to NY story— and we want to know yours Live at noon on WNYC.org!

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is in @washingtonpost.com today! I am still processing this incredible review of my very first book but you can read it here via a gift link: wapo.st/3Ehmb1B

Delighted to see my NY friend’s @kaysohini new graphic novel, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, is The Observer’s GN of the month here in the UK. “A stirring Hymn” to New York. Congrats Kay! #graphicnovels #books #NYC #comics

“Rarely have I seen someone capture a feeling so well— in text or visuals— as Sohini does with New York’s beauty, and in building out the emotional landscape for each part of her life through her masterful command of form, flow and color.” Wow. Thank you, Donna Edwards! apnews.com/article/beau...

Reviews of my debut book in the Financial Times, The Guardian, and now AP News??! What is this week, even. I am anxious beyond words, but also so, so grateful for this moment. This Beautiful, Ridiculous City will be out tomorrow.

Educators, if you want a comic to contextualize some of what is going on right now. Take a look at the NYC Civics for All Comics Group comic, WHO BELONGS! Written by @gregpak.net, Drawn @arambulo.bsky.social, colored Irma Kniivila, lettered Janice Chiang Download: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

Cannot believe my debut book This Beautiful, Ridiculous City is in the Financial Times today!

“Ultimately, though, it doesn’t matter how you feel as an artist. What matters is the emotion you put into the work itself, and the two are completely exclusive.” What an illuminating interview.

Talked about New York City, Shah Rukh Khan, and making comics with the amazing Megan Pinto! My debut book THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY will be out in five days. 🤯

Thanks, Matthew! 🙏🏼 (Lowkey still cannot believe it’s a real thing in the world now, instead of a million sketches and pages on my iPad)

I don’t know how I am only seeing this now, but WHAT is this page 🤯

What a pleasure it was to work with you, Kay! So proud of you!! The book looks AMAZING. Daeny really likes this page. 💛

When I was doing my PhD, I somehow managed to find the BEST mentors possible, who made space for me to make a graphic dissertation. I have so much to say about this, but to be brief, it changed my life. So, so grateful.