Samandal Comics

23/01/2025

« Revenge no.2 » our latest zine, fresh off the riso press!Printed in one color on colored paper, featuring contributions by , , and , , , , , .abu.hamdan , , and .
This issue reflects on themes of resistance, histories of movement, empathy and narratives of survival in Lebanon and Palestine.

The zine will premiere next week at FIBD Angoulême and will be available in avant-première at during .saade and Joseph Kai’s exhibition, opening today at 5PM.

This limited edition is also available online (link in bio), 15,00 EUR.

04/05/2024

❤️‍🔥CENTRAL VAPEUR❤️‍🔥
We're particing in this year's festival of !

Come check
• our books in the salon
° 's illustrated kakimono "Rakes elhawa" exhibited in the salon
• and 's exhibition "ça va être long" of their lastest projects at the Quai des Bateliers > their talk "Live from Beirut" with at 14:30
° 's and .leroy exhibition "Dialogue de Dessins" at Menuiserie Coop

xoxo 👄

08/11/2023

Ce vendredi à Césure, Paris
*les bénéfices de ce lancement seront reversés à l'association The Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

26/10/2023

19/10/2023

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06/10/2023

We'll be this weekend with some of our latest publications, solo books and posters 🥲

05/07/2023

Notre dernière publication "Cutes/ظِراف" est actuellement disponible en librairies!!

21/01/2023

The Rada and Mutaz Sawaf Center for Arab Comics Studies at AUB invites you to attend the lecture/talk entitled:
"She Narrated to Me; She Said"
A Graphic Novel telling stories of Women from the Abbasid Caliphate

talk by Drs. Lena Merhej, (Comic artist, co-founder of Samandal collective and founder of the Story Center)
& Enass Khansa, Assistant professor of premodern Arabic literature, and Chair of the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at AUB

ON: Tuesday January 24 at 6:00PM
AT: the Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH)
American University of Beirut (lower campus)
Dar al Handasah Architecture & Design Building

Lena Merhej | Samandal Comics | American University of Beirut (AUB) | Department of Architecture and Design | AUB | Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at AUB

19/01/2023

Hey 🤎we are happy to share with you the title of our upcoming collective book Cutes / ظِراف designed by ! Stay tuned for the release date 🤎fund

20/10/2022

لقراة الكتب www.watwat.org ♥️

Le Collectif de bédéiste Samandal donne vie à un nouveau projet intitulé « Watwat », une collection de BD jeunesse, qui met en avant les histoires de jeunes artistes afin de mieux les inclure au monde de la BD. Nous avons eu l’occasion de discuter avec Léna Merhej, directrice du p...

30/08/2022

ورشة عمل مع السمندل ! بدنا نعمل كومكس بالحرش ♥️♥️ الورشة حتكون حول توثيق الطبيعة والتجريد بالكومكس

30/05/2022

Our beloved open call magazine is turning #18!
Send us your stories to [email protected] before July 24 2022!

🚨 Email subject “Submission (s)”

Specifications:
We are open to all languages, with a special thirst for arabic 👅
- 16.5 x 23.5 cm (In case of full page images please add 5mm of bleed)
- Grayscale
- 300 dpi minimum
- From 1 to 15 pages combined in one PDF
- Illustrator/writer teams are welcome

Post illustration by Nour Hifaoui Fakhoury

نحن بانتظار قصصكم المصوّرة لعددنا #۱۸!
إرسلوها على [email protected] قبل تاريخ ٢٤ تمّوز ۲۰۲۲!

🚨عنوان البريد: "Submission "

المواصفات:
نستقبل كلّ اللغات، ونحبّذ لغتنا الأمّ ❤️
- الحجم ١٦.٥ x ٢٣.٥ سم (الرّجاء زيادة ٥×٥ مم إذا الرسم يملأ كامل الصّفحة)
- عدد الصّفحات: من ۱ إلى ١٥ صفحة في PDF واحد
- درجات الرماديّ (grayscale)
- كحدّ أدنى ۳۰۰ dpi
- نرحّب بمساهمات من فرق عمل (كاتب ورسّام، رسّامان، الخ...).

رسم نور حيفاوي