The award-winning French-Syrian comic artist’s new 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 go this far,” says French graphic novelist and film-maker Riad Sattouf, referring to his autobiography-in-progress, The Arab of the Future.
Recently published in French, the first two volumes of Sattouf’s four-part graphic novel memoirs, about his childhood in Libya and Syria, have been resounding bestsellers and are now poised to become a global phenomenon, translated into 15 languages. The first volume is published in the US this month and was heralded by a New Yorker profile.
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