In 2016, Sattouf was one of 30 authors, all male, selected for the Grand Prix by the Angoulême Festival’s artistic directors, which led to a heated controversy. However on the downside, I didn't appreciate that his mother's character figured on most of the pages and didn't say much. The fact that this book deals with a country that is now daily news and that the generation that was the author's age in the book now make up the generation (at least, the older one) that is fighting the civil war in Syria, makes this an important look at the factors that would cause that war. Under Sattouf’s pen, this state of affairs becomes an ingeniously apt microcosm of the larger world he grew up in.

We talked about racism, and Orientalism, and colonialism, and of course we also talked about Sattouf's simplistic but very effectively realistic drawing style, and whether the sins and mannerisms of the father will always and ever be visited upon the son. In a unique personal and humorous style, he narrated his own adolescent life observations in Manuel du puceau and Ma Circoncision published by Bréal Jeunesse, an imprint directed by Joann Sfar. Sattouf doesn’t do anything particularly special with his style of storytelling, either literally or visually, he just tells it straightforwardly but he does it so well. Fin de la série "l'arabe du futur", qui relate la vie de Riad Sattouf sur différents moments de sa vie. He buckled down, passed his high school exams, and the baccalauréat—required to attend university in France.In 2010, Angoulême International Comics Festival's Prize for Best Album for Pascal Brutal, volume 3, Plus fort que les plus forts (Fluide Glacial). Les partis pris d'écriture du discours dans la bande-dessinée La Vie secrète des jeunes de Riad Sattouf : un effet de réel du langage de la jeunesse ? I admit that I dreamed of publishing books under my name, I dreamed of being successful, I dreamed that journalists from LeMonde would interview me about my work. He’s a natural storyteller who’s perfectly suited to the comics medium and that makes reading this such a joy. While L’Arab du Futur paints a harsh picture of life in Syria and Libya, it also reveals universal aspects of human existence: the controlling influences of loving parents, the emancipating admiration of grandparents, the fear of facing the first day in a new school, cousins and siblings that are both rivals and fierce defenders, adolescent concerns about attractiveness and sexuality, the desire to be accepted by others, … the list goes on.

Although he was studying to become a pilot, he applied to study at École Pivaut and then Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image to study animation.When we think of dictators it is easy to think of them as these eternally corrupt supernaturally-powered demons. L'Arabe du futur, une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient est une série de bande dessinée en six tomes, écrite et dessinée par Riad Sattouf. En 1984, la famille déménage en Syrie et rejoint le berceau des Sattouf, un petit village près de Homs.