Beirut Won't Cry Lebanon's July War: a Visual Diary

"BANG? BLOG! Thus begins the online diary of Mazen Kerbaj, a Lebanese painter, jazz musician, and cartoonist, as bombs rained down on his hometown of Beirut. Throughout the summer of 2006, during the Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, Kerbaj published drawings, comics, and writing, a creative chronicle during a time of intense and unspeakable brutality. Drawn and written in English, French, and Arabic, Beirut Won't Cry shows us how an artist views the world and everything in it--his relationships, his family, and his creative pursuits--as it crumbles violently around him. Historically vital and occasionally hilarious, Beirut is Mazen Kerbaj's first graphic novel translated into English, introducing to many American readers his unique voice and urgent pen, showing them how to carry on and resist in times of war and oppression."--Page 4 of cover.

About the author

Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese jazz and free improvisation trumpeter and comic book artist. Kerbaj grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, and began playing free jazz in local clubs following the reestablishment of cultural life in the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Mazen Kerbaj
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.08.2017
• Subject: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire
• EAN: 9781683960362
• ISBN: 978-1-68396-036-2
• Dimensions (packing): 14.2 x 20.5 x 2.6 cm
• Series: The Fantagraphics Underground > 0
• Subjects: HISTORY / Middle East / General; Graphic Novels; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir