Sohaib Awan's JinnRise

Comic book writer Sohaib Awan combines Middle Eastern mythology with scifi, pitting powerful genies against alien invaders in the JinnRise series.

Jabal and Yunus

JinnRise Issue 7

Haya

Geneva B's "Forest Viera" and "Black Mage"

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David Bergen's cover illustrations for The Earthsea Quartet

One of the few Earthsea book cover artists who actually depict Ged and Tehanu as people of color. The author Ursula Le Guin describes Ged as "reddish dark", and the Gontish people in general as red-skinned.

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Detail of Ged

Detail of Tehanu

Michel Ocelot's "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts"

Kirikou and the Wild Beasts is the 2005 followup to Ocelot's 1998 Kirikou and the Sorceress. This  anthology of stories takes place within the Kirikou and the Sorceress timeline. Each episodes narrates Kirikou's ways of circumventing the Sorceress' oppressive tactics, or how the infant hero creatively manages human conflicts with wildlife.

Waterfall

Sorceress' House

Kirikou rides Giraffe

Nancy Duong's "Scarlet Moon" and "Year of the Cat"

Vietnamese-inspired illustrations by Nancy Duong.

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Julie Dillon's "Breaking Through" and "Planetary Alignment"

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Carol Phillips' "Sacred Pool" and "Turquoise"

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