Islam gets its own comic caped crusaders

Thursday 29 June 2006 15:01

A Kuwaiti cartoonist has won a prestigious award for his creation of the world's first superhero team based exclusively on Islamic culture.

At the Cartoons and Comics Festival in Recife last week, Brazil, Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa was presented with an award in recognition of his creation of the comic book: ‘The 99’.

The concept is based on the 99 attributes of God in Islam, and the Middle East is represented by Noora the Light, from the UAE, and Jabbar the Powerful, from Saudi Arabia.

Al-Mutawa said “This is a concept whose time has come and one that will forever change the way our children view such things as multiculturalism, cooperation and our own cultural heritage."

The FIHQ award has an illustrious list of past recipients, including the late American comic writer, artist and entrepreneur, Will Eisner, and Peter Kuper, whose comic illustrations appear regularly in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and MAD.

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The Muslim Comic Book characters have their official home page at www.the99.org while other comic books from the same publisher can be found on www.theninetynine.com