Yasmeen

Saif A. Ahmed, Fabiana Mascolo (Illustrator), Rob Jones (Letterer)

$19.99

Publication Date: November 30th, 2021

Publisher:

Scout Comics

ISBN:

9781949514698

Pages:

130

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Description

Yasmeen is a coming-of-age graphic novel that explores the struggles of an immigrant family escaping violence and their attempts to adjust to life in America. written by Saif A. Ahmed, Illustrated by Fabiana Mascolo, and published by Scout Comics.

Split between two periods in her life, Yasmeen is a comic book limited series/graphic novel that tells the story of an Iraqi girl’s struggles to survive slavery in ISIS terrorist regime in Mosul. Yasmeen was a happy 16-year-old when she was captured by ISIS invading army and is forced to find the courage within herself to endure slavery. Then, after surviving long two years in captivity, she is freed but has become a different person. Unable to connect to the things that she loved before, she must go through a different kind of struggle as she tries to adjust to the normal life with her family as refugees in a foreign country, America.

About the Author

Saif A. Ahmed is an Iraqi immigrant comic book creator and screenwriter. His short comic "The Dinner" is featured in the Eisner Award-winning magazine “PanelxPanel.”

Fabiana Mascolo is a freelance comic-book artist based in Rome. Upon graduating top of her class in 2015, she started working in the comics industry both as a penciler and colorist. Over the years she has worked for companies such as BOOM! Studios, Feltrinelli, and Edizioni BD. In 2019 she started her collaboration with Scout Comics for the mini-series Yasmeen written by Saif A. Ahmed.

Rob Jones is a writer and Letterer of comics, he has lettered for such companies as Image Comics, Humanoids, Heavy Metal, DC Thomson, Behemoth, Scout Comics, Madius Comics, BHP, and many others. He can often be found spouting nonsense into the void on Twitter @RobJonesWrites or in a dressing gown in his local park.