Habibi
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307381002 (0307381005)
Publish date: September 20th 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages no: 672
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Religion,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Islam
I wrote quite a lengthy review which delved into the many reasons I didn't feel Habibi was designed to be offensive. I illustrated the sensitivity Thompson showed the subject and the fantastic nature of the story. I talked about authorial intent and explored each of the complaints raised against Hab...
The drawing in this book is really gorgeous. Nearly every page contains beautifully drawn scriptures, curves or patterns. They make you stop reading the plot here and there just to appreciate these beautifully drawn details. The story is also very touching. Dodola, forced to be married at 9 years...
Utterly beautiful and haunting.
Although I had read Craig Thompson's Blankets, and thought it quite fine, it did not prepare me for the amazing achievement that is Habibi. There is an incredible amount of care in each page, a thematic cohesion across the entire book, that this is finally a graphic novel that deserves the latter te...
While I appreciate the research that went into this book, I'm a bit ambivalent when it comes to the narrative. It's a story of different kinds of love, across time and space--which I'm not sure if I can say is wholly original. The drawings are beautiful--even breathtaking at times (the village scene...
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