Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights by Sergio Toppi
Requirements: CBR Reader, 240 MB. / 58 MB.
Overview: On a tip from his brother, King Shahriyar discovers that his wife is being unfaithful. Incredibly distraught by her infidelity, he kills her and vows that each night he will take a young woman into his bedroom, spend the night with her, and kill her as soon as the sun touches the walls. Making good of his promise, the surviving women are scared. Sharaz-De, a beautiful woman from a distant land, voluntarily comes to the king. In the night, she tells him a sad story about a hunter and his falcon. Will he enjoy the story enough to spare her life?
- A set of tales inspired by the Arabian Nights by the late European comics master Sergio Toppi, exploring a barbaric society where the supernatural is the only remedy to injustice, as Sharaz-de, captive to a cruel and despotic king, must each night spin tales to entertain her master and save her head from the executioner. Tales filled with evil spirits, treasures, risk, and danger, but with ever at their center the passions of gods and men.
- * “An incomparable masterpiece.” Canal BD
* “An extraordinary work of breathtaking beauty.” La Lettre
* “The marriage between the magical world of storytelling and the haunting drawings of the illustrator works perfectly. The result is a magnificent book that the reader will not soon forget…” BoDoï
On Sergio Toppi: “The exquisite draftsmanship, the focused concentration on the human face, the attention to detail in the costuming and atmosphere of the period story, the compositions of both panels and pages, the extensive use of textures within the drawings, the powerful play of negative space throughout the work, the combination and continuity of images, and the visual storytelling dancing across the pages…I knew instantly I was in the presence of the work of a superb picture maker and story teller. And I’ve spent the last 25 years finding and looking at his work, studying it, and trying to incorporate a touch of his extraordinary vision into my own efforts.” – Walter Simonson
Genre: Comics, Fantasy, Tales, Mature Reader.
Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights
- Sergio Toppi artist, cover, writer
Published by Mosquito, Archaia Studios Press. 2000-2013.
- Scheherazade, Šeherzada, Persian transliteration Šahrzâd or Shahrzād is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights.
The story goes that every day Shahryar (Persian: "king") would marry a new virgin, and every day he would send yesterday’s wife to be beheaded. This was done in anger, having found out that his first wife was unfaithful to him. He had killed one thousand such women by the time he was introduced to Scheherazade, the vizier’s daughter.
In Sir Richard Burton’s translation of The Nights, Scheherazade was described in this way:
- "[Scheherazade] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of bygone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred."
Against her father’s wishes, Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King. Once in the King’s chambers, Scheherazade asked if she might bid one last farewell to her beloved sister, Dinazade, who had secretly been prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the long night. The King lay awake and listened with awe as Scheherazade told her first story. The night passed by, and Scheherazade stopped in the middle of the story. The King asked her to finish, but Scheherazade said there was not time, as dawn was breaking. So, the King spared her life for one day to finish the story the next night. So the next night, Scheherazade finished the story, and then began a second, even more exciting tale which she again stopped halfway through, at dawn. So the King again spared her life for one day to finish the second story.
And so the King kept Scheherazade alive day by day, as he eagerly anticipated the finishing of last night’s story. At the end of one thousand and one nights, and one thousand stories, Scheherazade told the King that she had no more tales to tell him. During these one thousand and one nights, the King had fallen in love with Scheherazade, and had three sons with her. So, having been made a wiser and kinder man by Scheherazade and her tales, he spared her life, and made her his Queen.
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- If you like the books, Please consider to buy from Archaia Publisher
See also: The Collector by Sergio Toppi
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