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.
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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