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“Cyclopedia Exotica” feels particularly L.A.-inflected.

She’s explaining why her second graphic novel, “Cyclopedia Exotica,” begins with a rupture of the fourth wall: a page of information about the Cyclops, “an exotic subspecies of archaic humans,” suddenly interrupted by one of their kind looking up from the page to address the reader directly.

As with “Cyclopedia Exotica,” she questioned her idea early on.

Unlike “Woman World,” the inspiration for “Cyclopedia Exotica” didn’t come from a march or movement.

In the new graphic novel “Cyclopedia Exotica,” immigrants with one eye coexist uneasily with their two-eyed neighbors.