The successful author and illustrator, winner of the 2003 René-Goscinny prize, announced on 1is September the first volume of a new variation of his masterpiece, entitled, Me, Fadi, the stolen brother.
Best-selling cartoonist and author Riad Sattouf announced on Sunday, September 1, the launch of a series of comic books derived from The Arab of the future, where he will tell the story of his brother. This series will be titled I, Fadi, the stolen brother, Riad Sattouf said on Instagram. The first volume, to be released on October 8, will cover the period from 1986 to 1994.
Fadi is Riad’s younger brother, who appears in the autobiographical saga The Arab of the future. At the end of the fourth of the six volumes, Riad reveals that the father, now deceased, leaves his French wife without warning, and leaves permanently for his country, Syria, taking his third son with him.
The two brothers meet again in the sixth and final volume of The Arab of the future, with a Fadi who has forgotten his mother’s language and left behind his memories of France. “This comic strip that I have been preparing for more than 10 years, written and drawn based on interviews conducted with my brother in 2011 and 2012, finally gives Fadi a voice,” explained the Franco-Syrian cartoonist. Before specifying: “He talks about his incredible childhood with my father and sheds a completely different light on it.”
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The Arab of the Future is one of the greatest comic book successes of the 21st century, with 3.5 million copies sold worldwide and translations into 23 languages. Although this series was published in its entirety by Allary, Me, Fadi will be by the publishing house founded by Riad Sattouf, Les Livres du futur.
