Testimonials

We love hearing from you! Read what others have written about our project. To contact us about the comic book, please direct all comments to: info@theshahnameh.com

Quotes From Readers

“I am just writing to congratulate you on your comic book achievements. It’s fantastic to that people are bringing the Shahnameh to the world’s stage. I live in England. Will it be possible to order English versions of the comic books?”

“Congratulations for your wonderful initiative. My husband used to read the Shahnameh to me at night. Unfortunately, I kept falling asleep until he gave up on me! Now I have another chance to catch up with the lovely Shahnameh again.”

“I think it is great!! Having it made into a comic is an awesome idea. Please keep it up.“

“I’m so glad that someone finally started this. If we don’t tell the story how do we expect world to know it?”

“I am a 32 year old female attorney and I have not read a comic book since Tintin. I cannot wait to read the Shahnameh comic book. What a brilliant idea!” “I have to congratulate you for your great and highly valuable effort,”

“My children and I are impatiently awaiting your next comic book in the Rostam series. Is that in the works? I have even purchased extra copies of your first and only comic book to encourage you. Please let me know whether you have begun working on it or if you need sales of your current book to increase before you can commence work on a second one.”

“My name is Sohrab and I am writing from Dubai. I just received the Rostam comic through the mail and have to say I was really impressed. As an avid comic reader, (love everything from Marvel, DC, Darkhorse, to the old King Features stuff) and someone with an Iranian background, I was pleased with the final product. Rostam was both well written and well drawn, and the package as a whole was very professional.”

“I just want to let you know how impressed I was by the Rostam comics that I ordere. You have done a great job. I was particularly impressed by the writing. Re-telling an ancient Persian legend in modern English comics book style is no easy taskbut you have succeeded artfully! The Shahnameh comics project has been long overdue. I hope the comic ends up becoming a successful series with a broad audience.”

“I found out through my brother who lives in Iran that you have come up with the wonderful idea of writing the stories of the Shahnameh in the form of illustrated comic books. He read about it in an Iranian newspaper and sent me a copy. I want to congratulate you for your initiative and wish you success in continuing with it.”

“I wanted to say thanks for the beautiful job on the Rostam issue. I just received it in the mail and was amazed!! I ordered it for my son so that he can enjoy this magnificent story which I enjoyed myself growing up in Iran.”

“I loved the idea of comic books from Shanameh, and I hope its being accepted by the market. As an admirer of Shahnameh, I always regretted the lack of knowledge of the western world from the rich Persian Mythology, specially for young readers. I’m a French citizen, originally from Iran, settled in Paris since 25 years I would like you to consider translating “Rostam tales from the Shahnameh” in French and distributing it in French speaking countries. I’m convinced French people, including young population will love it. (I have even 2 teenagers at home).

“From my 5-year old son, thanks so much for Rostam. In fact, since we’re reading the one we bought and kind of using it up, I’m ordering another to keep in the plastic bag. Imagine what a “first Rostam” comic would be worth in 2 years (a la “first SUperman” My son’s favourite is “Voy Naneh!” Keep up the good work.”

“What a great idea! The comic book format sounds like a perfect format to get our culturally confused/challenged kids to pay a bit of attention to their heritage. I love the artwork. My boy loves comic format, and I look forward to reading it myself. I confess that I have not yet read the Shahnameh, but from what my wife told me it sounds like something every boy should read.”

“Congratulations to you for the genius in you! Creating a comic book version of the story of Rostam and Sohrab is very original indeed, and I am sure it will be welcomed by iranians in every age group. Wishing you continuous success and happiness.”

“I am very happy to see your work on Shahnameh. It’s been one of my dream to one day see the shahnameh animated. Let me say that you have done a wonderful job with the charachters and the imagery. Just looking at it, I can hardly think of a better way to depict the “Persian Knighthood”, or Pahlavani aura any better.”

“WOW - I was so ataken by the Rostam venture!! GOOD JOB and CONGRATS!! This is everybody’s dream! Especially mine. I have been reading the shahnameh so I could translate it for a children’s story but your comic books reeeally take the cake. I have to hand you a big trophy and tell you how proud and happy I am for this.”

“Congratulations and well done for the comic book “Rostam”! This is a dream come true. I’ve always been thinking about the idea of comic books, cartoons, TV series, movies, theme parks, … based on the characters and stories of Shahnameh. Maybe it takes time to make the Americans excited about Shahnameh and its fabulous stories, but imagine sometime in the future of Iran we have theme parks built around the ideas and characters of Shahnameh, or cartoons running on Iranian TV stations on the adventures of Rostam. Our ancient culture and mythology is so rich and yet an untapped resource. I’m sure what you’ve done is a good start for introducing it to the people of the world, and I hope that it makes the younger Iranians around the world interested in discovering their roots.”

“I love the idea of making a comic book version of the Shahnameh. Its brilliant! Simply brilliant!”

“I was searching the web for Shahnameh. My Dad’s 70th Birthday is coming up… and I had heard about a new beautifully illustrated edition that might just be the right gift for a Persian Dad… and I found you and your Rostam! What a brilliant idea!”