As a teenager I was nurtured on a steady diet of horror films, Surrealist art, heavy metal music, fantasy literature, and the works of Bill Sienkiewicz, Ernst Fuchs, Mobeius and Bernie Wrightson. I am now interested in how the often-maligned genres of comix and cartoon art – with its long tradition of subversive humour and absurdism – might provide new opportunities for social criticism and understanding.
2022 (forthcoming), “Graphic confessions and the vulnerability hangover from hell” Graphic Medicine, edited by Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti, University of Hawai’i Press.
Here’s a web comic and essay I made called ‘Why Comics?:Australian Comics and the Autographic Turn’ for Folio, which is a wonderful resource for understanding the past and present of Australian comics history and practice.
Here’s a comic I made for Liminal Magazine on the theme of taste.
Drawing Dad – A comic that reflects on my dad’s recent experiences of vascular dementia.
The Case of the Animals Versus Humans Before the King of the Jinn – A short comic I made for Cordite Poetry Review in the wake of climate-change induced bushfires that ripped through NSW in the summer of 2019-2020.
Alone Together – A web comic made in collaboration with Melbourne based researchers about how older people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds coped during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Healing Alone – A graphic medicine web-comic made in collaboration with Dr Isabel Hanson.
My struggle with Crohn’s Disease (2017)
Advice comics – Huda responds to people’s dilemmas here and here.
Villawood: Notes from an immigration detention centre (2015) & Belonging: Post Villawood
Villawood won a Walkley Award in the Artwork category in 2015, and was translated into French by Courrier International.
Torture: The Aussie Way (2015)
It’s not about Islam, a little web comic I made in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting (2015).
The Good Son, a comic-memoir about my childhood. It can be bought in print from the Take Care zine distro (2014).
Holy Diver art zine (2014).
‘Alam al-mithal: The imaginal world (2013)
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