August 6th, 2009

1. Is your image what you had in mind for yourself when you started out, or has it been shaped by your fans and the industry? (Or any other external factors)
It has been shaped primarily by the audiences, who are quite disparate. Those who read my political columns in The News have no idea about my anti-intellectual radio show, and vice versa. A holistic impression is not out there. At one point all I was known for was in relation to music, and because of distance from it with the political satire show News Views and Confused, that has abated. Continue

Of This & That
By: Iffat Rashed

I was visiting my elder daughter last summer, and was intrigued to see her totally immersed in the novel “Twilight” by Stephanie Meyers. As I too was looking for some reading material in her bookshelf, she suggested that I read “Twilight” after her. I looked at her askance, because I thought I was beyond the age of enjoying a novel about teenage love and, that too revolving around a human, a vampire and a werewolf! When I was much younger, tales of the vampire Count Dracula held a chilling and frightening fascination; the image of sharp teeth, bloodshot red eyes, a black engulfing cloak, the surrounding eerie darkness of the night, when the vampire would rise from the coffin to venture forth, Continue

Tamer Youssef – talented Egyptian Cartoonist, Illustrator and Graphic Designer, living & working in the States, talks to Ink candidly.

What made you want to become a cartoonist?

I did not want to become a cartoonist … really. My plans were to study cinema and work as a filmmaker! I did not choose my career, my career chose me. I was just a student at school when I started working in the late eighties for the daily French newspaper “Le Progrés Egyptian” as a professional illustrator. But later on comics attracted me, and I found myself in this type of art, so I became a cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator. Continue