Arab Winter  The Graphic Novel Readers Group Meeting 16 January
Lambeth Graphic Novel Readers Group Meet to discuss
Arabic Comic Culture

The Lambeth Graphic Novel Readers Group is meeting at Streatham Library at 19:30 on the 16 January 2012 to discuss comics and graphic narrative of North Africa and the Middle East and how will it now bloom? There has been an emergence of talented comic creators from those regions in the last few years but rather than this emergence seized upon and integrated into western mainstream comic culture as the British explosion of the 90s most has been translated in western comics as orientalism. Habib is a typical case in point. Persepolis and Palestine address Arabic issues and are fairly easy to find unlike many other comics coming from North Africa and the Middle East. However you may find it difficult to find Arabic comics or graphic novels so you may want to check the source sites sites I have included below as references...

Arablit: The Arab Comics Explosion (in Translation) and ‘Muktatafaht’
Hooded Utilitarian: Can The Subaltern Draw?: A Survey of Contemporary Arab Comics
Forbidden Planet: The Arab comics explosion
Jacketflap: 'Book blog'
The99: (A very mainstream superhero comic and probably one of the best known Islamic comics in the west)  

If you cannot find us at Streatham Library we will be at the Holland & Tringham from 8pm onwards.

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