Cairo (comics)
| Cairo |
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| Publisher |
Vertigo |
| Date |
2007 |
| Creative team |
| Writer(s) |
G. Willow Wilson |
| Artist(s) |
M. K. Perker |
| Letterer(s) |
Travis Lanham |
| Editor(s) |
Joan Hilty |
| Original publication |
| Date(s) of publication |
November 7, 2007 |
| ISBN |
1-40121-734-6 |
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]
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 smuggling ring leader on the rafh pass.
- Tova - An IDF 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.
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