Bosch Fawstin is an American cartoonist and anti-Islam activist. Born a Muslim, his parents came from Albania. Fawstin quit the religion and now describes himself as a "radical critic of Islam".
Works
His first graphic novel, Table for One, was nominated for a Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer award in 2004 and an Eisner award - Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition in 2005.
In 2015 he won a controversial contest by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) advertised as the "First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest", which saw the Curtis Culwell Center attack by two armed Islamist terrorists take place.
He thereafter published the semi-biographical The Infidel, Featuring Pigman, a comic book that is part of a graphic novel. The plot "revolves around twin brothers who react to 9/11 in opposite ways: One dives deeper into his Islamic roots; the other, a Muslim apostate, creates "an ex-Muslim counter-jihad superhero comic book." It is a story within a story: As the superhero, Pigman, battles his jihadist nemesis, the conflict between the twins escalates."
References
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American former Muslims American cartoonists American people of Albanian descent American critics of Islam American atheists 21st-century atheists Counter-jihad activists Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists Former Muslim critics of Islam American male artists American graphic novelists