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Riad Sattouf

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French cartoonist and film director

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

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Czechia
emoemo raphip hop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
22
Total plays
52

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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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