Comic book artist

Ayoub Benkhalifa

Multidisciplinary artist, comic book artist, cultural mediator & future museologist, Ayoub Benkhalifa is a talented young man from the Ochre city. He graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan in 2013, specializing in comics. He also holds a master’s degree in museology and cultural mediation from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat (Morocco).

Strongly inspired and influenced by American comics, Franco-Belgian comic books, and Japanese manga, Ayoub dreams of one day creating a comics museum in Morocco.

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Moroccan Hand

Comics strips

Moroccan Hand tackles the issue of Moroccan women's rights and freedoms in 2050.Consisting of 3 comic strips, it deals with the present and future problems haunting Moroccan women in their society.The artist depicts a jungle-like society governed by unfair rules. It's not always the most upright who have their rights but the most politically or economically powerful. The Moroccan is swallowed up by a globalist system in which the declaration of human rights is replaced by the laws of the jungle.Inspired at times by gag-style narrative codes, the comic strips follow a satirical and poignant mode of narration in which the hands, a powerful symbol, represent the changes taking place in the Moroccan society.This work represents a transition from the artist's classic comic-book working method to an exclusively digital one. Its aim is to raise intellectual awareness of human and civil rights while expressing the artist's futuristic vision of these issues.

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