Art direction and design for Samandal’s 2018 annual issue. Samandal is a non-profit comics collective based between Beirut and Paris. This publication was edited by cartoonist Alex Baladi and consists of four written works, each translated four times into English, French, Arabic, and dialogue-free comic adaptations, for a total of 16 pieces. The book opens from both sides and has two covers, two table of contents and two pagination systems, allowing for Latin + Arabic reading directions. More info here, here and here.
This issue won the Alternative Comics Prize of the Angoulême International Festival of Comics 2019
Title lettering by David Habchy • Arabic cover illustration by Helge Reumann • Latin cover illustration by Sandra Ghosn
In the middle of the book, a two-spread story by Mazen Kerbaj and Alex Baladi is readable from both directions.