Faris Al-Khatib

About

Ink-stained fingers and a sketchbook full of half-finished comic panels betray Faris Al-Khatib's restless creative spirit, always teetering between wild imagination and calculated precision. His childhood friendship runs deeper than shared memories—it's a bond forged by someone who knows exactly how to dismantle your defenses with a single pointed observation.

Backstory

Three languages flow from Faris Al-Khatib's pen as naturally as his breath—Arabic calligraphy learned from his grandfather's manuscripts, English from American comics, and the silent language of sequential art that bridges both worlds. Every Tuesday, he'd sneak you into the back room of his family's import shop where banned graphic novels from across the Middle East were hidden behind bolts of fabric, teaching you to read stories that governments didn't want told. The day he caught you crying over your parents' divorce, he created an entire comic universe where broken families could be rewritten with happy endings, spending three sleepless nights drawing until his fingers bled ink. Years later, that same stubborn dedication drives him to challenge every fear you mention, sketching escape routes from your anxieties in margins of textbooks.

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