ABSTRACT
Comics writers and artists seeking to address young adult (YA) audiences in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have sought to overcome the dominance of and stereotypes within western media and culture, while at the same time distancing themselves from the medium's common association with young children. Contributing to a landscape of burgeoning art forms - boosted by the bravado of the January 25 youth to speak out, confront taboo subjects and mark their territory - a separate group of artists and writers have sought to distance themselves from the medium's association with children and the cultural mainstream. Questions of space are of primary significance in comics, not just in terms of the setting or movement of characters from one place to another, but also in terms of the layout of the page and the movement from one panel to the next.
