Creator Bio
Carol Isaacs
b. Mid-20th Century
Carol Isaacs was born in northwest London to a Jewish family that fled Baghdad, Iraq, in the wake of the 1941 anti-Jewish riots known as the Farhud. She is the author of a graphic memoir and animated film about the lost world of Jewish Iraq, called The Wolf of Baghdad (2020). She works as a musician, playing the keyboard and the accordion, and as a cartoonist, The Surreal McCoy.
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The Wolf of Baghdad: An Iraqi Jewish Memoir
Carol Isaacs’s graphic memoir explores memory, loss, and Iraqi Jewish heritage through haunting, dreamlike graphic storytelling.