![]() So then is the tone of the book set, or rather, its variances. Her husband is killed pages later by bandits, and she's abducted into slavery, but before we are taken to that time in her life (and in Habibi there are many such flash, the story skips ahead to her life on a boat in a sea of sand, caring for Zam, an orphaned slave she has rescued. ![]() But her husband gives her the gift of language, teaching her the Arabic calligraphy which becomes such a relevant motif and theme throughout the book. Though not explicitly depicted, her "wedding night" is far from a comfortable happening. ![]() The story opens with the sale of Dodola as a bride to a scribe. In Habibi the new full-length graphic novel from Craig Thompson, story, language, and image come together in an exaltation of both the comic medium and the Arabic script. But the idea of language as art is not limited to just the funny pages, and in fact all written language originates from a pictorial form. From sound effect to the logotecture of Will Eisner's splash pages for The Spirit, words and pictures stand in for each other creating a language unique to the form. ![]() The fuzzy gray border between language and image is no more apparent than in comics. ![]()
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