Two years after closing his autobiographical saga, bestselling author Riad Sattouf announced on Sunday, September 1, 2024, the launch of a comic book series derived from The Arab of the Future, in which he will tell the story of his brother.
This series will be titled Moi, Fadi, le frère volé, Riad Sattouf indicated on Instagram. The first volume, to be released on October 8, 2024, will cover the period from 1986 to 1994.
Fadi is the younger brother of Riad, who appears in the autobiographical saga The Arab of the Future: at the end of the fourth of its six volumes, the author reveals that his father, now deceased, abruptly left his French wife to join his country, Syria, kidnapping their third son.
“Another light on “The Arab of the Future””
The two brothers nevertheless meet again in the sixth – and final – volume of L’Arabe du futur, where we discover that Fadi has forgotten his mother’s language and left behind his memories of France.
“This comic strip, which I have been preparing for more than ten years, was written and drawn based on interviews conducted with my brother in 2011 and 2012 and finally gives Fadi a voice,” explained the Franco-Syrian cartoonist. “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 theone of the greatest comic book successes of the 21st centurywith 3.5 million copies sold worldwide and translations into 23 languages. While this series has been fully published by the Allary editionsMe, Fadi will be by Books of the Futurethe publishing house founded by Riad Sattouf.
