Sufi Comics Released Their Second Book 'The Wise Fool of Baghdad' At The Comic Con Express Bengaluru

Online, September 12, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Mohammed Ali Vakil and Mohammed Arif Vakil launched their second book 'The Wise Fool of Baghdad' at the Comic Con Express Bengaluru held in Koramangala Indoor Stadium on September 8th - 9th. The first book of the Vakil brothers -'40 Sufi Comics' received tremendous response globally. Sufi Studios-the publishing house for Ali and Arif also became the first Indian publisher to participate in the International Comic Con held in San Diego this year.

Comic Con Express is the traveling version of the Indian Comic Con, the annual Comics Convention at Delhi. Comic Con Express was started with the aim of taking Comic Con to cities throughout India to support and boost the comics industry by increasing local interaction and participation. The prime motive is to bolster the nascent comic culture throughout India, by taking the best the Indian comics industry has to offer to people who would otherwise never get a chance to have the Comic Con experience.

Comic Con Express also seeks to promote local artists and writers from various cities, by giving them an opportunity to interact with established artists, writers and publishers and a space to bring their work to the attention of people from the industry.

Speaking on launching their new book Mr. Mohammed Ali Vakil said 'We are delighted with the response that our first book has received, and consequently decided to work on a second installment. Since we started Sufi Comics, creating a book like this was always on our minds. We've been hearing the wonderful stories of Bahlool from a very young age. These stories of his wisdom and wit were narrated to us as children in our Madrasah (Islamic School) and later in Majalis (Islamic gatherings) where scholars would explain the spiritual teachings in Islam for the young and old".

"Since we started Sufi Comics, creating a book like this was always on our minds. Our first book "40 Sufi Comics" contains two stories from Bahlool's life. He was such an inspiring figure in the history that we wanted to dedicate an entire book with just his stories. For the first time we have made the stories available in a Sequential Art. These stories have been taken from the books of history and oral traditions. Also I would like to mention that to expound the spiritual message of these stories, the sacred verses of the Quran and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (s) have been hand -inscribed in Islamic Calligraphy by Master Calligrapher Muqtar Ahmed one of the finest Islamic Calligraphers in India", added Arif Vakil.

Adding to this Artist Mr. Rahil Mohsin who has teamed up with the Vakil brothers for the first time to illustrate the comics in a different style said 'We hope you enjoy reading the stories of Bahlool, as much as we enjoyed expressing them in this medium. In these comic strips we have tried to create the similar illustration that was originally narrated through Turkish and Persian miniature paintings.

Sufi Comics is a web comic by brothers Mohammed Ali Vakil & Mohammed Arif Vakil that began in the year 2009. These comics are short stories taken from Islamic history & tradition to illustrate the eternal spiritual truths in the teachings of Islam. The first 40 comics have been published in the form of a book "40 Sufi comics".