Riad Sattouf
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 21
Top works
- Arab of the Future
- Esther's Notebooks
- El árabe del futuro 5
- El árabe del futuro 5
- El árabe del futuro 5
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Czechia
emoemo raphip hop
Discography
- Rakeťák2021
- Bolest neodchází2022
- BISEXUÁLKA2025
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22
- Total plays
- 52
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- BCLC strategy for prognosis prediction and treatment recommendation: The 2022 update
· 2022 · cited 3,933x
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
· 2022 · cited 2,231x
- Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2022 · cited 1,947x
- Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 1,784x
- GPS constraints on continental deformation in the Africa‐Arabia‐Eurasia continental collision zone and implications for the dynamics of plate interactions
· 2006 · cited 1,604x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I waited so long to tell this story partly because when I started to make comics I didn’t want to be the guy of Arab origin who makes comics about Arab people…I didn’t want to be the official Arab comics artist. So I made a lot of comics in France which weren’t related to this part of me. I made a movie. But even during all that other work, I was thinking I have this good story, how could I tell it?”
- “So the reader thinks: “My God, this man is saying horrible things in front of a child!”…It’s more sincere ... I wanted to try to describe the dark side and the positive side – if there was a positive side – all together ... I wanted to express the paradox that was in my father between modernity and tradition. It is a very common and human paradox. How can you be modern and progressive and still respect ancestral tradition? It generates conflict in the mind, I think.”
- “I don’t want to read modern comics, comics that are made today. I take care not to read too many contemporary comics, because I’m afraid it will influence me. Or it will complex me in a way. I see someone doing something great and I will say, “Oh, my god, I am shit — what am I doing?” So I prefer not to read them. Sometimes, when it appears to be incredible, I will read it — but I’m very afraid of reading modern comics. I read only old things and things I liked when I was young…”
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