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New Arab and Arabic Zines, ComicCons, Comix Festivals, and Submission Calls
As usual, there is much going in the Arab and Arabophone comix world: In Beirut, a new graphic novel collective, Zeez, launched their first titles last month: Sharing the common theme of the street,...
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Coming in August: Mazen Kerbaj’s ‘Beirut Won’t Cry,’ Finally in English
Lebanese comics artist, graphic novelist, and musician Mazen Kerbaj will finally see Beirut Won’t Cry into English this August: Kerbaj announced the release — which is set for August 31 — via his email...
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Friday Finds: Rawand Issa’s ‘Not from Mars’
The Bigmouth is a project that focuses on “womxn, femmes, and non-binary AMEMSA (African, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian) people in comix and illustration,” and Issa’s Not from Mars is the first...
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Sunday Submissions: An Opportunity for Arab Graphic Novelists (Or Those...
If you are a graphic novelist working in “the region,” then Tosh Fesh has an opportunity for you: Tosh Fesh will choose four graphic novels from among those submitted. They’ll fund the projects’...
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5 Must-read Narrative (Arab) Comix Online
If you have an interest in Arab and Arabic comix — in narrative or single-panel form — then I’d hope you follow Oum Cartoon, edited by Jonathan Guyer (@mideastxmidwest). But here, a glimpse of five...
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Mazen Kerbaj To Serialize New Graphic Novel in a Lebanese Newspaper
Celebrated Franco-Arabo-Anglophone comix artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj announced, via his email newsletter, that he’s working on a new graphic novel to be serialized “on a weekly basis” starting...
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Friday Finds: Translation of Climate-change Comic ‘8 Minutes’
Last week, The Offing published a short comic-story by Mohamed Saleh, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, and an interview with the two of them: The piece, which won the Swedish Institute Alexandria’s...
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Darf Publishers Signs Deal for ‘The Apartment in Bab El-Louk
LitHub can cross one off this list of “10 Books by Arab Writers That Should Be Translated,” published earlier this year; Donia Maher — along with artists Ahmed Nady and Ganzeer — has inked a deal for...
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Sunday Submissions: Calls for Arab and Arabophone Graphic Novelists
The Berlin-based CORRECTIV recently announced two graphic novel fellowships for artists; one for artists from the Middle East and one for artists from subsaharan Africa. Also, the Beirut-based Mahmoud...
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‘Freedom Hospital,’ Debut Syrian Graphic Novel ‘Being Acclaimed in France and...
Images from Hamid Sulaiman’s graphic-novel debut — released this month in Paris — are on display at Galerie Crone in Berlin through June 18, 2016: In both Paris and Berlin, AFP reports that the Syrian...
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Award-winning Egyptian Artist Ganzeer’s First Graphic Novel To Begin...
The Egyptian artist Ganzeer (the pen name of Mohamed Fahmy), co-winner of a Mahmoud Kahil Award for his work on The Apartment in Bab el-Louk, has announced that his first full-length, solo graphic...
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What’s New: Overviews of Arabic Comix, 2016
Jonathan Guyer’s Oum Cartoon recently ran a discussion between Guyer and Egyptian artist Ganzeer about what’s new in the worlds of Arabic comix. Over at Arab Hyphen, Tasnim Qutait posted up a panel...
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Winners of Mahmoud Kahil Awards for Arab Comic Artists and Illustrators...
Thursday, January 28, the winners of the inaugural Mahmoud Kahil Awards were announced in Beirut: Rada Sawwaf speaking about the power of comics at the debut Mahmoud Kahil Award ceremony. The main...
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Beirut To Host First Annual Symposium on Arabic Comics; Mahmoud Kahil Award...
On the heels of the first annual CairoComix festival, the American University of Beirut will host its first annual Symposium on Arabic Comics on Nov. 16, also celebrating the winners of the new Mahmoud...
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‘Lebanese Comic Fights for Survival After Free-speech Sanctions’
Read a rundown of what’s been happening with Lebanon’s Samandal magazine in The Guardian and find the magazine’s crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo: From The Guardian: A Lebanese satirical comic last...
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Lena Merhej’s ‘Jam and Yoghurt’ First Graphic Novel Translated from Arabic to...
CairoComix closes today (there are some great photos at @CairoComix), and it’s a heady time for the Arabic graphic novel. Lena Merhej’s Murabba wa laban — or Jam and Yoghurt, or Laban et confiture —...
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CairoComix Festival Kicks Off, Women Big Winners on Opening Night
The debut CairoComix Festival has entered its second day, and while some reports have its organization a little rough around the edges, it’s been packed with enthusiasts. Its first set of awards...
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Asia Alfasi’‘Extraordinary Tales’: Bringing Together Libya, Scotland, and Manga
Translator Valentina Viene profiles “Muslim Libyan Arab British graphic novelist” Asia Alfasi, who has moved from writing about her identity to, more broadly, life in Libya and Scotland: By Valentina...
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CairoComix Coming Soon: The First Comics Festival in Egypt
Starting September 30 and running through October 3, Egyptian comics artists Shennawy (co-founder of TokTok), Magdy ElShafee (author of Metro), and Twins Cartoon (the force behind Garage) will launch...
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Another Pop-Literary Comics Magazine Launches in Egypt: ‘Garage’
Following in the footsteps of Samandal and Toktok, among others, “Twins Cartoon” — the pen name of cartoonists Mohamed and Haitham Rafaat — has launched Egypt’s newest collective comic book, Garage:...
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