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New Naqqali Manga

Tales from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, drawn as manga. Black-and-white ink pages carry the story; full-colour pages stop time on a single moment. Every caption is a couplet of the poem itself, in our rhyming English verse, in the order Ferdowsi wrote it.

Each issue tells one tale and is free to read here, page by page. Collected volumes in print will follow.

Read Issue 1 → About the issue

Cover of Issue 1: Rostam faces the White Div

Issues

Issue 1 · Double issue · 56 pagesThe Seven Labors of RostamOne hero. One horse. Seven trials on the short road to Mazandaran.

Rostam and Sohrab
in preparationIssue 2Rostam and SohrabTwo champions meet on an empty plain. Neither knows the other’s name.

How to read

Turn the pageTap or click the right side of the page to go on, the left side to go back. Arrow keys work too, and on a phone you can swipe.
Spreads or single pagesOn a wide screen the issue opens as two-page spreads, as in print; on a phone, one page at a time. Pinch to zoom into a panel.
Read the verseThe Verse button shows the couplets on the pages in front of you, and the reader remembers where you stopped.
The whole passageEvery couplet of the Seven Labors, with the panels set beside the lines they illustrate, is on the Seven Labors page.