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Samandal Comics Magazine

 
 
Samandal
10:47 / 02.07.08
Samandal Comics Magazine, a trilingual publication (Arabic, English and French) is issued quarterly from Beirut, Lebananon and collects comics from the region and abroad.

I know I'm shamelessly plugging our magazine but it is an online mag and I figured it might be interesting to add some Middle Eastern comics into the Barbelith fray. We would really love to hear what you all think of our magazine, and remember: we are always looking for submissions- whether complete comics or a writer or illustrator looking for a partner to work with.

We're just coming out with issue 2 in a month's time, however issue 1 has been entirely translated to English and is PDFed online.
 
 
grant
15:48 / 02.07.08
What's good in it?
 
 
Samandal
17:44 / 02.07.08
Well, being one of the editors I'm inclined to say all of it.

Try Salon Tarek El Khurafi, by Omar Khouri, a serialized comic taking place in an alternate Lebanon where the Mental Security Forces have clamped down on everything religious and imaginary.

The Vacant Lot by Andy Warner is a fantastic, wordless four page comic about nostalgia and growing up.

Hatem Imam's Khkhkh on the other hand, is a wordless yet noisy adventure in surrealism.

Fouad Mezher's the Educator splices Sin City style art with a V for Vendetta type hero in another dystopian society.

Isabelle Boinot's Nicoptine works like a wonderfully trashy soap, rife with sex, betrayal and murder.

Jam & Yoghurt, Suspended Time and Dans Le Taxi are all loose biographies by different artists about growing up in Lebanon.

Glitterpill, by Elyse Tabet, is a poem of a comic, while Farah Nehme's Happy Birthday to Me, is an elegy to adolescence.

Hope this helps a bit...
 
  
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