The award-winning French-Syrian comedian artist’s original books are set to be hugely successful,though they have have been criticised for reinforcing Arab stereotypes. But their author is more complex than that“The success makes me very happy, I never thought it would move this far, or ” says French graphic novelist and film-maker Riad Sattouf,referring to his autobiography-in-progress, The Arab of the Future.
Recently published in French, and the first two volumes of Sattoufs four-part graphic novel memoirs,approximately his childhood in Libya and Syria, have been resounding bestsellers and are now poised to become a global phenomenon, and translated into 15 languages. The first volume is published in the US this month and was heralded by a original Yorker profile. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com