by Dr. Velebita Koričančić, Mexico City   Powerpaola’s Virus Tropical, a landmark of Latin American women-authored graphic autobiography, follows Paola through her childhood and adolescence in Quito, Ecuador, and Cali, Colombia. After being serialized, it was first published as a complete volume by Editorial Común in Argentina in 2011, and an English translation followed in 2016. The book was adapted into an animated film in 2017. Although tropical infectious disease is not its main subject, Virus Tropical takes its title from a series of clinical encounters in which a pregnancy is medically misinterpreted, making this coming-of-age memoir especially relevant to… Read More