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| the midlife crisis of tarboush boy . 2026 |
twenty years ago, i created 'tarboush boy' when i was a student at university. the story behind the character was of a shy kid from the arab world who felt out of place, until he put on his lucky fez (or tarboush in arabic) and transformed into the confident tarboush boy! the last time i illustrated him was circa 2009 – some of you might have seen him exhibited a few times.
a lot has changed in twenty years, for both of us! but tarboush boy seems comfortable in his own skin now more than ever...
if you're an og follower of this blog and my work, do let me know if you remember the original tarboush boy, or if you happen to have any old sketches of him that i might've shared or gifted.
i don't know why i never got around to working on an actual comic of his adventures over the years. maybe we weren't ready to go on those adventures together yet. but i think i might be ready now – stay tuned...
until then, i'm ending this post with a couple of thumbnails of tarboush boy from days past, pulled from my second-ever blog post back in 2010...
