We have the exclusive, Humanoids‘ announcement of Majnun and Layla: Songs From Beyond the Grave, from the highly acclaimed illustrator and cartoonist Yann Damezin, translated by Thomas Harrison and Aqsa Ijaz, bringing the original tale of tragic love to life in a beautifully illustrated and lushly detailed graphic novel, available in bookstores on November 29, 2023 and in comic shops on November 29, 2023.

It is a story known around the world. Born of an Arabic tale, it has been interpreted hundreds of times in Persian, Turkish, and Indian languages. It has influenced playwrights, composers, filmmakers, scholars, modern popular language, the first opera of Islamic origin, and individuals as varied as Aleister Crowley and Eric Clapton. The tragic tale of love unfulfilled – Majnun and Layla.

Qays and Layla were madly in love. So in love, it has been said, that the young man could not contain his passion for his beloved, singing to the winds with such fervor he was given the nickname “Majnun” — The Madman. But their love could not be, as the lovers were separated by fate and man, leading to a tragic end for these star-crossed souls.

Experience the classic Persian poem as painted in the lush palette of artist Yann Damezin. Through his brush, we see a decadent and sensorial world, one as raw and vulnerable as the love between the Majnun and his Layla.