Sunday Submissions: ‘Samandal’
2022-07-03
Beirut-based comic magazine Samandal is calling for submissions for their 18th issue.Continue Reading
WatWat Takes Flight: Arabic Comics for Young Readers
2022-04-20
Since its creation in 2007, the comics collective Samandal has published more than 17 magazines, six anthologies, and six graphic novels. What’s more, the collective has undertaken numerous initiatives for the promotion of comics in Lebanon. From this experience, the youth-focused WatWat or “Bat” project was born in 2018.Continue Reading
Lit & Found: ‘Where to, Marie?’ an Open-source Comic in Arabic and English
2021-11-05
It’s available for download at wheretomarie.net.Continue Reading
Teaching with Arabic Literature in Translation: Comics and Comix
2018-05-21
“I started to ask myself the following questions: How might iconic images circulate between the page and other public contexts such as graffiti, calligraffiti, and the iconography of protest and resistance? What is the role of leitmotifs and repetition at the intersection of text and image?”Continue Reading
Ground-breaking Middle Eastern Comics Anthology Launches; Proceeds to Support ‘Samandal’
2015-12-18
“[T]his collection includes an awesome range of work – from autobiographical to political to surreal to silly, as well as a wonderful introduction by one of the contributing artists contextualizing the work.”Continue Reading
The Past and Future of Arabic Comics
2010-07-20
It’s not unusual that an adult would have a box of old comic books stashed somewhere. But avid Lebanese collector Henry Matthews—who apparently has collected tens of thousands of individual comics—is turning his passion into a historical and literary preservation project. First was his Encyclopedia of Lebanese Comic Books, publishedContinue Reading
