#Marguerite Dabaie

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"Enter the Mulberry Tree and Fly Free": Palestinian Comics Revealed in new exhibition

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced “Enter the Mulberry Tree and Fly Free”, the first exhibition of comic art from Palestine of its kind to take place outside of the Middle East and North Africa region, which will be part of this year

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced “Enter the Mulberry Tree and Fly Free”, the first exhibition of comic art from Palestine of its kind to take place outside of the Middle East and North Africa region, which will be part of this year’s weekend-long event in Bowness-on-Windermere next month (26th – 30th September 2024). Enter the Mulberry Bush and Fly Free – art by Mohammad…

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Wonderful Women of History, Rashida Tlaib

Written and Drawn by Marguerite Dabaie

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Read Marguerite Dabaie on how 23andMe doesn’t know what makes a Palestinian.

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Smash Pages Q&A: Marguerite Dabaie

The creator of ‘The Hookah Girl and Other Two Stories’ discusses her latest project, ‘A Voyage to Panjikant.’

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Devil's Due Wants you to Talk Bernie to Me!

Devil's Due Wants you to Talk Bernie to Me! #comics #comicbooks #berniesanders

After making international headlines with its superhero comic about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chicago’s Devil’s Due Comics has announced a sequel is now available for pre-order. Talk Bernie To Me!:​ The Bernie Sanders Special and AOC Surprise is a one-off commemorative comic celebrating two-time Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, featuring contributions from several acclaimed and award-w…

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Marguerite Dabaie’s Graphic Memoir of Growing Up Christian Palestinian in US The Hookah Girl: And Other True Stories

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DEBUTING AT TCAF 2018 - THE HOOKAH GIRL by Marguerite Dabaie

In this current political climate, being a Palestinian is a hazard. However, there are common grounds where East meets West. The Hookah Girl is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel of a childhood as a Christian Palestinian in America. Told in short stories and with narrative ranging from growing up in a refugee family to how to roll waraq (stuffed grape leaves), this book is an account of living in two seemingly different cultures that actually aren’t very different at all.

Exhibiting Creator: Marguerite Dabaie Publisher: Rosarium Publishing Price: $6.95 USD

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Rosarian Marguerite Dabaie did a comic for The Nib!

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Devil's Due Collects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez One-Shots Into TPB

Devil’s Due Collects Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez One-Shots Into TPB

Freshman congress woman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has had a spotlight on her since she joined the House of Representatives. That has extended to comics too thanks to Devil’s Due with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force. The publisher has announced a new trade paperback collecting the three one-shots released in this political series to date: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman…

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AOC is the star of a new superhero comic

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force is a new one-off graphic novel anthology from Chicago's highly topical Devil's Due comics, featuring Josh Blaylock, Tim Seeley, Hoyt Silva, Marguerite Dabaie,  Dean Haspiel, Jill Thompson, Jose Garibaldi, Christa Cassano, Travis Hymel, Pat Shand, ​K. Lynn Smith, Kit Caoagas, Larry Watts, Bob Sikoryak, Adam McGovern, Nick Accardi, Shawn DePasquale, Elizabeth Marley Kim, Jason Goungor, Sherard Jackson, Peter Rostovsky, Jeffrey Burandt and Sean Von Gorman; the title is a tribute to one of her greatest Twitter moments to date. Ships in May, pre-order now (there's also a variant cover!)

https://boingboing.net/2019/02/25/devils-due.html

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Episode 34: Friends with Pete’s Mini Zine Fest 2018

Dre and Corey at Pete’s Mini Zine Fest 2018.

Corey’s Table.

Dre’s Table.

Ghost Rider Dre Drew At The Fest

Mindy Indy and Bill Roundy photo by Marguerite Dabaie.

Andy Pratt on the right. Photo by Marguerite Dabaie

Andy Pratt’s work Dre took home. (ATPratt)

Dre and Corey’s table at the Philadelphia Art Book Fait 2018.

Photo from Philadelphia Art Book Fair 2018.

Two Pennsy yokals Dre and Corey travel up to Brooklyn NY for Pete's Mini Zine Fest 2018. This festival is organized by zinesters Marguerite Dabaie and Andria Alefhi.  They share their experience of Pete’s and reflect a bit about their recent experience at the Philadelphia Art Book Fair. The Check out the podcast for all the details.

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Picture This: Cartoonists Comment on the Lasting Impact of Will Eisner (1917-2005)

Cartoonists Comment on the Lasting Impact of Will Eisner (1917-2005) By Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Martha H. Kennedy, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Art, Prints & Photographs Division.

During Will Eisner Week, March 1-7, 2020, the Library of Congress joins art schools, libraries, universities, and museums in a global celebration of this legendary creator’s contributions to the world of comic art and particularly spotlights the rise of the graphic novel.

Year after year, I rediscover the many comic artists who share with me their admiration for the work of this groundbreaking master of graphic narrative. Whether inspired by his poetic evocations of specific times and places or moved by his own personal stories or those of people he knew or invented, cartoonists of different generations, backgrounds, and interests find that the lifework of Will Eisner helps to spark their own creative processes.

Collage of cover details of graphic novels and short story collection by Will Eisner: A Contract With God (1978), To the Heart of the Storm (1991), and New York: The Big City (1981). Photo by Martha H. Kennedy, 2020.

In addition to reading his series The Spirit [view catalog record], countless cartoonists have studied and admired Eisner’s graphic novels including such autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works as A Contract With God (1978) [view catalog record] and To the Heart of the Storm (1991) [view catalog record], two of my personal favorites. I asked several contemporary comic artists to share their thoughts about how Eisner’s graphic novels have influenced the development of their own work and/or the art form. A sampling of their remarks follows, along with a few images from their graphic narratives.

Everyman wanders in the rain, without an umbrella . . .. Drawing by Eric Drooker, between 1985 and 1992. Published in Flood: A Novel in Pictures, 1992. https://ift.tt/2wpGZB7

Stating that he always loved Eisner’s work, Eric Drooker, who created the award-winning Flood: A Novel in Pictures [view catalog record], shares this poetic recollection: “I immediately recognized Will Eisner’s primordial urban visions when I first encountered his work . . .  I, too, was born and raised in New York City, so Eisner’s haunted cityscapes were instantly familiar to me, and highly detailed depictions of ethnic inner city neighborhoods . . . continue to influence my own graphic novels.” (An original drawing for Flood appears at the right.)

Peter Kuper, who created the Eisner Award-winning graphic album Ruins, remembers that he encountered Eisner at a New York Comic Con in the late 1970s, “just as he had published A Contract With God and [I] bought a copy directly from him. Though I . . . loved The Spirit, I was just beginning my cartooning career and Contract hit like an inspiration bomb with exciting new ways of storytelling. His wordless short comics in books like New York: The Big City launched me into experimenting with that form as well and eventually led me to create several wordless graphic novels of my own. I’m forever grateful. . .”

Henni. Drawing by Miss Lasko-Gross, 2015. Design for American Library Association poster. https://ift.tt/2TAka5t

Miss Lasko-Gross voices similar appreciation for Eisner’s work, emphasizing that it “created a path for autobiographical artists like myself. Even without always being a direct point of reference. It was an audacious leap away from the idea that comics were exclusively a realm of larger-than-life creations. Making room for the ‘little’ and the personal.” Lasko-Gross explores the truth of a personal life in her graphic novel Henni [view catalog record]. (A design for a poster advertising the novel is seen at the left.)

“Maybe I should thank Dad because I don’t know if my rebellious side would be as strong without him.” Drawing by Marguerite Dabaie, 2010. Published in The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories, volume 2, 2010. https://ift.tt/3crmHaT

Another comic artist and illustrator, Marguerite Dabaie, writes that she thinks Eisner was “masterful,” and adds that “He’s been more of an indirect influence for me but it has been a powerful one. I don’t think there are many cartoonists his work hasn’t influenced in some way.” A rising voice in the field, Dabaie has drawn upon the challenges she has faced as a young Arab-American woman seeking to pursue her own path as an artist in the face of traditional expectations for girls in her family’s culture. (A drawing from Dabaie’s The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories appears at the right.)

As one of the progenitors and masters of the graphic novel as we know it, Will Eisner holds a key place as a gifted, prolific practitioner of the art form. In his work as a teacher and promoter of visual storytelling, he also contributed vitally to worldwide recognition of graphic narrative as a respected, powerful genre of artistic expression.

Learn more:

Works by Will Eisner in the Prints & Photographs Online catalog give a snapshot of his multi-faceted comic art.

Explore works by Eric Drooker in the online catalog.

Tour Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages — an exhibit on display in the Library of Congress Jefferson Building until Sept. 12, 2020, and available 24/7 online!

Read Martha H. Kennedy’s article about a lecture Will Eisner gave at the Library of Congress in 2003: Martha H. Kennedy, “Wisdom from an Old Master: Will Eisner Discusses the Graphic Novel,” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 62, no. 5 (May 2003). And view a video of Will Eisner’s talk!

Published March 03, 2020 at 11:48AM Read more on https://loc.gov

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Tonight! #winc #womenincomics #ny #art #gallery #comics #theblerdgurl #blerdlife Repost from @comd_citytech @TopRankRepost #TopRankRepost In celebration of Women’s History Month COMD at City Tech presents the Women in Comics Exhibit Grace Gallery Namm Hall 11th Floor March 16 - April 20 . Opening Reception Thursday, March 16 5:30 - 8:30 pm . Featured Artists: Laura Alvarez @bigeyesworld, Lara Antal @sowhatpress, Selina Briggs @thejellyempire, Marguerite Dabaie @mdabaie, Micheline Hess @gamera2000, Janet Lee @dapper_janet, Alice Meichi Li @alicemeichi, Ellen Lindner @ellenlinda, Alitha Martinez @ariotstorm, Paige Pumphrey @paigey_pumphrey, Regine Sawyer @rslockettdown (panel discussion moderator & exhibitor) Sara Woolley-Gómez @saritajeanine, Women in Comics Collective @wincnyc — Dr. Shamika Mitchell @blackbootie (panel discussion moderator) http://ift.tt/2mNJtQQ

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Read Marguerite Dabaie on how Trump’s jerk move in Jerusalem is undermining the peace process.

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Devil’s Due launches Ballot Box Comics

Looking for a palate-cleanser after the chaos of Iowa and the mendacity of the State of the Union Address? Indy comics publisher Devil’s Due has announced a new spinoff label, Ballot Box, which is “dedicated to progressive politics and populist movements that challenge both the right and the center-left.”

The company, founded by Josh Blaylock in 2000, published Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force: New Party Who Dis? last year and is currently running a Kickstarter for a Ballot Box collection featuring work by Blaylock, Tim Seeley, Jill Thompson, Robert Sikoryak, Dean Haspiel, Marguerite Dabaie and many others.

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Today's #SJComix365 is "The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories" by Marguerite Dabaie (Rosarium Publishing, 2018). In the current political climate, being a Palestinian is a hazard - but there are common grounds where East meets West. 'The Hookah Girl' is a semi-autobiographical graphic novel of a childhood as a Christian Palestinian in America. Told in short stories and with narrative ranging from growing up in a refugee family to how to roll waraq (stuffed grape leaves), this book is an account of living in two seemingly different cultures that actually aren’t very different at all. The narratives blend with beautiful artwork for a comic that feels both intimate and highly politically relevant. ✨ #hookahgirl #palestinianstories #palestiniancomics #graphicnovels #comics #rosarium #refugeestories #talesofmigration #twoworlds #memoir #americanpalestinian https://www.instagram.com/p/BvotxePgh9m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nprfqp3hi1rr