The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade — Viken Berberian

A man's arrogance and ambition collide with fraught politics and revolutionary zeal in a visually groundbreaking graphic novel.

In this graphic novel, more in love with the alluring properties of cement than he is with his girlfriend, Frunz's overriding ambition is to become the next legendary architect. If only life was that simple. His father, known as Mr. Cement, is a builder in bed with the autocrats who run Yerevan, the capital of post-Soviet Armenia. As father and son team up to transform the city into a post-modern mecca of Trumpian high-rises, outraged citizens rise up in Revolution against them and Yerevan's corrupt regime. Full-color illustrations throughout.