Life With the Ahmad Family – Comic Book 1 – ‘Life With The Ahmad Family’ Series

Author: Absar Kazmi
Publisher: Hiba Magazine
Pages: 40
Binding: Softcover
ISBN:  –

About the Comic: Equipped with a life-long passion for drawing, and an advocate for faith, moral and ethical issues, Absar Kazmi is founder and illustrator of a clever comic series: Life with the Ahmad Family.

In the series, he explores a variety of issues evident in Muslim societies, as well as stories and messages that appeal to people of all faiths, ages and backgrounds. All this wrapped in an often times humorous package, Absar says he wanted to create something different with the Ahmad family: “I wanted to show that practising Muslim families live real lives; no doubt prayer, fasting, reading Qur’an are all extremely important, but Muslims families also joke with one another, we play football, we go on picnics and we like reading regular books too!”

About the Author and Illustrator: Absar was born in Pakistan, but spent a lot of his youth travelling (and sketching) from country to country, from the animals in the wilderness safaris of Kenya to drawings of superheroes. However, he soon gave this up, only to renew this passion in later years of university and married life. He then found a way he could sketch that was Islamically permissible and wanted to pursue both his passion for drawing and passion for his faith.

“With the popularity of conventional comics and cartoons amongst the Muslim youth – it seemed that there was a real need for Islamically acceptable comics and other media for the youth,” he says. After a few creative pursuits, in late 2011 Absar was given a platform from Hiba Magazine to develop a cartoon for them to attract a wider audience, and thus Life with the Ahmad Family was born.