The Arab of the Future

"Riad Sattouf’s pen frisks and wiggles, but his drawings and his message are more complex than they appear. Telling of his childhood in Libya, Syria and France in the early 1980s, Sattouf — a former contributor to the French humor magazine Charlie Hebdo — denounces pan-Arabism and Islamic politics. This graphic memoir has been compared to Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about growing up in Iran. In fact, it’s a kind of anti-Persepolis in its icy cynicism."

"I tore through two volumes of "The Arab of the Future," by Riad Sattouf -- it's the most enjoyable graphic novel I've read in a while."