Cairo (comics)

Cairo
Date	2007
Publisher	Vertigo
Creative team
Writers	G. Willow Wilson
Artists	M. K. Perker
Letterers	Travis Lanham
Editors	Joan Hilty
Original publication
Date of publication	November 7, 2007
ISBN	1-40121-734-6

Cairo is the first graphic novel of G. Willow Wilson with art by M.K. Perker, and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. ^[1]

Synopsis

The story is set in contemporary Cairo, and follows six characters as they are drawn into the intrigue surrounding a stolen hookah, a box containing East and the Under-Nile of legend.

Characters

• Ashraf - a hash smuggler.
• Tova - an Israeli Army special forces soldier assigned to the border for her refusal to serve in the occupied territories.
• Shaheed - a Lebanese-American would-be terrorist.
• Shams - a centuries-old djinn, protector of a box containing East.
• Jibreel - a dissident journalist often censored by the government.
• Kate - a somewhat naive American tourist and aspiring journalist.
• Nar - crime lord and magician.
• Iblis - the Devil.
• Ta'abatta Sharran - a spirit inhabiting the city's ruins, appears as a bearded man wrapped in two great snakes. The character is based on the similarly named Meccan poet.

References

1. Irvine, Alex (2008), "Cairo", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, p. 44, ISBN   978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC   213309015

External links

• Cairo on dccomics.com Archived 2009-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
• IGN: Cairo