“Using bright cheery colors and the graphic style of American comic books, Ibrahim superimposed his personal life stories onto Old Master compositions, such as The Birth of Wonder Woman after Botticelli, thus realizing multi-layered and complex autobiographical stories as well as social and political commentaries.”

-Martha Henry

 

 

ISSA interviewed on THE LEONARD LOPATE SHOW Wednesday June 1, 2016 on NPR WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820

 

Winner of prestigious Edward R. Murrow & THIRD COAST 2014 Awards for BEST NEWS DOCUMENTARY NPR’s ‘The Hospital Always Wins’ An hour long feature by Laura Starecheski for State Of The Re:Union

 Out Now

  ‘THE HOSPITAL ALWAYS WINS: A MEMOIR’ by Issa Ibrahim
Published by CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS

 

 OKAY.

You’ve woken up in a world you never would have imagined. It is so destabilizing that you begin to question your sanity. You might be ready for

POP MUSIC VOODOO!!

LET YOUR FREAK FLAG BE YOUR CAPE

And take flight into the fantastic, dizzying, magical, mystical, absurd, hilarious, sexy, sci-fi, psycho, tuneful, topsy-turvy diversified mind of Issa Ibrahim- Prehistoric/Futuristic Negroidal Shaman, Rock and Roll Witch Doctor Super Hero, and “mentally ill” artist- taking on the hate with a one-two musical punch. Is this a nutty nigga’s psychotic reaction to the dangerous nightmare of Presidont Trump or the dawning of the Apocalypse?

If you’ve been feeling it too then POP MUSIC VOODOO is the right prescription to MOVE YOUR BODY, CURE YOUR BLUES and SOOTH YOUR SOUL.

 

 About the artwork-

“Using bright cheery colors and the graphic style of American comic books, Ibrahim superimposed his personal life stories onto Old Master compositions, such as The Birth of Wonder Woman after Botticelli, thus realizing multi-layered and complex autobiographical stories as well as social and political commentaries.”-Martha Henry