Oh genio! El Hechizo De Shabbar / Oh, genious! The Spell of Shabbar

Djinn Djinn #1

by Ralf König

Rare book

Genres: Comics, Gay, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels, LGBT

172 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Ralf König was born on the 8th of August in Soest, Westphalia, Germany. He went to the secondary school in Werl and then later did an apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker. In 1979 during his coming-out he published his first short comic stories which due to the politically motivated gay-movement were very engaged. The comic-stories appeared in the Munich underground magazine Zomix as well as in the gay periodical Rosa Flieder. He decided to continue his studies and then trained at the National Academy of Art in Düsseldorf from 1981-1986 concentrating on Free Art.

Reviews

[Sarah]

König really let everyone including himself down with this one. What used to be snide and clever with a good edge is now just a bit genderfobic, zenofobic boarding on the racist - it’s Full of anti Arab quibs and it really just feels lazy and ignorant.

Don’t get me wrong, the queer go unity has no reason to love radical Muslims, I get that, a lot of us do, but that doesn’t excuse generalisation and racism

[Jaimeoka]

3.5

[Szymon]

Ein Hauch zu viel Orientalismus, um es komplett zu genießen. Trotzdem mit viel König Witz.

[Mikael Kuoppala]

A hysterically funny, sharp, witty, current and ironic graphic novel that leaves the reader eagerly waiting for more.

[Jeffrey]

J'adore cet univers