Cairo_(graphic_novel)

<i>Cairo</i> (comics)

Cairo (comics)

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Cairo is the first graphic novel of G. Willow Wilson with art by M.K. Perker, and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.[1]

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Synopsis

The story is set in contemporary Cairo, and follows six characters as they are drawn into the intrigue surrounding a stolen hookah, a box containing East and the Under-Nile of legend.

Characters

  • Ashraf - a hash smuggler.
  • Tova - an Israeli Army special forces soldier assigned to the border for her refusal to serve in the occupied territories.
  • Shaheed - a Lebanese-American would-be terrorist.
  • Shams - a centuries-old djinn, protector of a box containing East.
  • Jibreel - a dissident journalist often censored by the government.
  • Kate - a somewhat naive American tourist and aspiring journalist.
  • Nar - crime lord and magician.
  • Iblis - the Devil.
  • Ta'abatta Sharran - a spirit inhabiting the city's ruins, appears as a bearded man wrapped in two great snakes. Based on the similarly named Meccan poet.

References

  1. [1]
    Irvine, Alex (2008), "Cairo", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, p. 44, ISBN 978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC 213309015
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