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rooklyn-based artist Marguerite Dabaie was raised

in San Francisco before moving to Manhattan,

where she attended the School of Visual Arts. She

graduated in 2007 with honors and decided to stay in New

York City.

While in school, she received two grants to publish her on-

going comic, The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories, about

her multicultural upbringing as a Christian half-Palestinian

living in America. She is also the author of Unsichtbares/

Sichtbares: Your Guide to Fashionable Living, a short comic

about two siblings struggling to survive in Weimar Germany.

Dabaie is now a freelance illustrator and comic artist

in addition to happily working at an art museum. She is

cochair of the Cartoonists’ Roundtable, which is held at the

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in Manhattan.

While juggling her many pursuits, she is working on the

second volume of The Hookah Girl and eating too much

candy.

Marguerite Dabaie

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