Twins Cartoon at DesignIndaba 2016

February 18, 2016 by Tasnim

DesignIndaba 2016 is running from the 17th to the 19th of February in Cape Town. Among the presentations is a talk by artists Mohamed and Haitham Rafat Elseht, “the twins at the heart of comic culture in Cairo” who appear under the name Twins Cartoon. See the full progam here. The twins have been interviewed a number of times by Design Indaba, and were recently interviewed by Herman Manson (@marklives) who asked them about their style, their talk at the […]

Categories: Art, Comics • Tags: DesignIndaba, Twins Cartoon

Pens and Cartoons: Arab Comics In Motion

January 27, 2016 by Tasnim

Lebanese animation and comics artist Lina Ghaibeh and Tunisian comics author and illustrator Issam Smiri, were recently on a panel speaking about the history of Arab comics and the current comics boom in the Arab world. The panel occurred in conjunction with the Casa Árabe Madrid exhibition Pens and Cartoons: Arab comics in motion, which aims to provide an “overview of current comics and graphic novels in the Arab world through 23 works produced from 2007 to 2015, all very representative of the creative response by Arab writers […]

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Garage – A New Venture for Arab Comics

August 29, 2015 by Tasnim

Soha Elsirgany writes about Garage, a new venture in the world of Egyptian comics. The comic will showcase artists from around the Arab world. The brothers who started the project, Mohamed and Haitham Rafaat, also started Kawkab El-Rasameen (“Planet of Artists”) in 2014. The twins are currently working on the Cairo Comix festival, to be held on 30 September, with Shennawy, the creator of Tok Tok comic, and Maged El-Shafey, of the award-winning Metro magazine. “Preparing for this festival we felt there are […]

Categories: Art, Comics • Tags: comics, Egypt, graphic novels