The First Muslim Superhero Returns to Fight Injustice in Contemporary Boston

Graphic novel author A. David Lewis speaks with Muftah about graphic novels and religion, his ongoing project Kismet, Man of Fate, and the character’s new adventures in contemporary Boston.

by Claire Sadar

Comics scholar and graphic novel author A. David Lewis recently spoke with Muftah about Haawiyat, his comic book for Syrian refugee children. Lewis’s second ongoing project is the new Kismet, Man of Fate series, which is being released weekly on A Wave Blue World and will be published in a print edition in 2018.

Kismet, who made his first …