Doaa El Adl, born in Dumiat, is an Egyptian caricaturist. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cinema and Theatre Interior Design department. Doaa worked as a political caricaturist at Al Dostor newspaper, Rose Al Youssef Magazine and Sabah El Kheir Magazine. She currently works at Al Masry Al Youm.

In the field of children illustrations, she contributed to Qatr El Nada, Alaa-ElDin and Bassem Magazine. She participated in many exhibitions in Egypt and all over the world in France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Tunisia. She won several local and international awards from which we mention:

The local award from the journalists’ union in Egypt for the best caricaturist in 2009;

The Mustafa and Ali Amin prize in 2015; A number of international awards from Italy and France and the Journalists ‘ Club in Geneva; She has been nominated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its list as one of the most inspirational and influential woman of 2016.

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Based in Lebanon, Fouad Mezher works as an illustrator on projects ranging from children’s books to animations, but his primary focus is on comics. His work in comics started with Samandal in which he wrote and illustrated the series The Educator as well as other short comics. His other work in comics includes illustrating The Fifth Column: Homecoming, written by Fadi Baki, in Zamakan, as well as writing and illustrating the silent comic Fragile for Risha Project. His latest work in comics was illustrating The Mezzotint in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Volume One, adapted from M. R. James by Leah Moore and John Reppion. His comics have featured deaths caused by reanimated specters, pens, giant feet and an assortment of mutant animals.

Mezher’s work in comics extends beyond making, with co-organizing, acting as a jury member co-teaching workshops and designing promotional material at the International Festival of Comics – Beirut: 2012. In 2015. Mezher was invited to speak at Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture, a symposium at Brown University, RI, and at “Al Sutouh” roundtables and “the artist at work” workshops at Cairocomix. His work has been exhibited at Brown and Cairocomix, as well as Beirut Animated, Trick Animation Festival and Lucca Comics and Games. 

 He is currently pursuing a Masters in Comics at California College of the Arts, where he is at work on a graphic novel. Surprisingly, it doesn’t feature gruesome death.

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Othman Selmi was born in 1977 in Tunisia. After receiving his diploma in graphic arts, he devoted his time to comics at a cartoon studio. He is currently Director of Creativity in a communications agency. He wrote many books for young Tunisians, and drew in many magazines abroad, among them we mention F / I / M ² / P, Rukh, Popoli and the Italian Internazionale, in addition to writing theatrical posters. 

I usually work in my office late at night since I am surrounded by my books and pens. When I am out, I like to work in a cafe overlooking the street. The hustle and bustle along with the crowd around me put me in my own bubble fed with words and dialogue. Dynamism of tables also looks strangely like that of boxes of a cartoon board.

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Muhammad Mustafa is a Cairo-based visual artist. He studied Fine Arts in Cairo, majoring in Painting, graduating in 2007. He started his work in the advertising field as an illustrator, and throughout his work years joined different multinational agencies in Egypt, Bahrain and Dubai. In 2012, he decided to pursue his path as a freelance illustrator to further explore different kinds of art projects alongside his commercial work. His work has been featured in various regional and international publications.

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I was pretty much known to be the lazy students throughout my school years, but i was also known as “that girl who knows how to draw” .. so i survived by that, waiting for the art class impatiently; the only subject that woke me up from the coma I had during all those years.

After miraculously graduating, it didn’t really take me much time to decide that my passion was art, so i enrolled at the Lebanese university , faculty of art, and majored in painting and sculpting, graduating in 2000, and freelancing since my 1st year of university.

I illustrated my 1st book in 2004, and I have over 37 books, working with several publishers, in Lebanon, Morocco, UAE and Jordan. I have to admit that my greatest inspiration is my 2 little monkeys. Beirut with all the craziness that makes it so charming, the people, the smallest daily details, the stress, and the chaos. these are all my source of inspiration…. and jazz too 🙂

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