Riad Sattouf Comics

Riad sattouf is a best selling cartoonist and filmmaker who grew up in syria and libya and now lives in paris.

Riad sattouf comics. He also directed the films the french kissers and jacky in the women s. We will have to wait a little longer to know the author advances extending the suspense until the next volume which will be the penultimate of a saga designed for a neophyte audience. The work recounts sattouf s childhood growing up in france libya and syria in the 1970s 80s and 90s. Close to 1 500 new bd books bd stands for bande dessinee or comic strips are produced each year to satisfy the incessant appetite of mainstream and alternative audiences.

Clémentine from brittany and abdel razak on scholarship from a village in syria. The first volume of l arabe du futur won the 2015 fauve d or prize for best graphic novel at the angoulême international comics festival. Riad sattouf s parents met in the early 1970s in a cafeteria at the sorbonne. Comics serve as perfect medium.

A graphic memoir by riad sattouf is a must read for anyone interested in a story that helps to illuminate the ongoing conflict in the middle east. I make comics for people who hate comics. 26 year old writer to release autobiographical bombshell. The arab of the future.

The arab of the future french. The author of four comics series in france and a former contributor to the satirical publication charlie hebdo sattouf is now a weekly columnist for l obs. Born 5 may 1978 is a french cartoonist comic artist and film director of franco syrian origin. Sattouf is best known for his award winning graphic memoir pentalogy l arabe du futur the arab of the future and for his award winning film les beaux gosses the french kissers he also worked for the satirical french weekly charlie hebdo for ten.

Riad sattouf weighing in at 282 pages the fourth installment of riad sattouf s comics memoir of growing up in the middle east and europe is the heftiest yet. He developed a desire to become a comic artist early on and produced several short stories that remained unpublished. A childhood in the middle east 1978 1984. Sattouf prefers not to specify the whereabouts of his father or his current relationship with him.

Paris france is paradise to the comic book lover. Riad sattouf son of a syrian father and breton mother was born in paris. Posts about riad sattouf written by hannahmiodrag. He was able to pick up reading french comics through his grandmother.

He spent most of his childhood the middle east first in algeria then in libya and syria. As i was preparing this review this weekend saudi arabia cut diplomatic ties with iran over events. This volumes takes us into sattouf s tumultuous adolescent years as he struggles to reconcile his parents diverging views along with their respective cultures.