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Morocco

1950

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In short

Moroccan comics history is short and often political.

The first known comic is Sakr Assahra, circulated in Tetouan in 1950, followed in the early 1960s by satirical papers such as Tekchab and Satirix. Abdelaziz Mouride, called the father of Moroccan comics, drew his story of imprisonment under Hassan II, published in full as On affame bien les rats in 2000. A comics department opened at the fine arts institute in Tetouan in 2000, and newer authors such as Rebel Spirit and Zainab Fasiki publish in Darija and French.

Morocco in numbers · 01 • 04

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1950

2010s

Artists

Artists from Morocco in the archive.

Comics from Morocco in the archive.

Sakr Assahra, the earliest comic from Morocco in the archive.

The decade when the most new comics from Morocco began.

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bande dessinée · Comics from Morocco

History

Morocco in 4 chapters

  1. 1950

    to 1981

    Chapter 01

    Early comics and satirical papers

    The first known Moroccan comic is Sakr Assahra, an Arabic comic of about twenty pages circulated in Tetouan in 1950 by an unknown author. In the early 1960s Hamid Bouhali and Mohamed Filali created the satirical papers Tekchab and Satirix, the second subtitled a journal of political comics.

  2. 1982

    to 1999

    Chapter 02

    School comics and prison comics

    From 1982 to 1990 the Ministry of Education published the comic booklets A grand pas for pupils learning French. Abdelaziz Mouride, jailed from 1974 to 1984, smuggled out comic pages about political prisoners, which appeared in French in 1982 as Dans les entrailles de mon pays. The trilogy Histoire du Maroc en bandes dessinées followed in 1993, but the market for imported comics collapsed in the 1990s.

  3. 2000

    to 2012

    Chapter 03

    Tetouan and the first local albums

    A comics department opened at the National Fine Arts Institute of Tetouan in 2000, and the first class of seven students graduated in 2003. Mouride published On affame bien les rats in 2000 and Le Coiffeur in 2004, and the first comic in the Amazigh language, Tagellit nayt ufella, also appeared in 2004. Mohamed Nadrani followed with Les sarcophages du complexe in 2005 and L'émir Abdelkrim in 2007.

  4. 2013

    to today

    Chapter 04

    Skefkef and a new generation

    The Darija-language comics magazine Skefkef started in 2013, and Zainab Fasiki joined its collective. In 2015 and 2016 the Ministry of Culture funded several comics projects, including Rebel Spirit's Casablanca Guide. Fasiki's Omor appeared in 2017 and her Hshouma in 2019.

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