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Sami Alwani is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Toronto. His comics have appeared in Best American Comics, on Vice and he received a Doug Wright Award in 2018 for his story ""The Dead Father."" His work was exhibited in the Canadian alternative comics survey exhibition ""This is Serious"" at the Hamilton Art Gallery in 2019. His first collection of stories, The Pleasure of the Text, will be published with Conundrum Press in May 2021.
"""Alwani is one of, if not THE most exciting new practitioners of alternative comic art. This is an essential collection of vibrant, exploratory, modern cartooning. Much to meditate on."" -Simon Hanselmann, award-winning creator of the Megg, Mogg and Owl series ""I love Sami Alwani’s style, his tender flat hysteria, and his naked honesty. And the way he depicts queerness is so removed from cuddly rainbow-tinged pop culture—it’s beautiful and raw, and very very real."" --Roman Muradov, creator of On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness -- Roman Murdov The Pleasure of the Text is a remarkable debut that showcases Alwani’s short comics, which are at once pointed and playful, mundane and metaphysical. This is smart, fun, important work from a fresh voice in Canadian comics. –Andrew Woodrow-Butcher, Quill & Quire ""Brainy, hilarous and scabrous."" —Robert Kirby in The Comics Journal "
