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]
| Cairo | |
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| Date | 2007 |
| Publisher | Vertigo |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | G. Willow Wilson |
| Artists | M. K. Perker |
| Letterers | Travis Lanham |
| Editors | Joan Hilty |
| Original publication | |
| Date of publication | November 7, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1-40121-734-6 |
Synopsis
editThe 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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