I believe in the healing power of short visual stories. My mission is to empower and to create empathy through art.

I am a psychologist and self-taught comic artist and illustrator. I was born in Tunisia and grew up in Berlin, where I was raised by my German mother and my Tunisian father. I publish comics and cartoons, mostly related to sociopolitical topics like identity and racism. My Master’s degree in Intercultural Psychology helps me to reflect and understand those topics on a more scientific level.

At an early age, I had recognised that me being religious in my everyday life was different and therefore alienating for the majority of the German society. I found comic art to be a suitable medium for empowering myself and other people of color, for creating dialogue and empathy by using honesty, sensitivity and humour. I currently live in Berlin with my husband and daughter.

Fun Fact: The name tuffix was originally created by school mates as one of my countless nicknames, then used as a user name on deviantart and finally got stuck as my official artist’s name.