People thought they had wet themselves. Hussein hopes to expand his work to a new medium. These days, however, Hussein has his eyes on a puppet program with Goldstar communications, sort of an Egyptian version of Spitting Image. In the meantime, however, his regular characters are appearing less and less in the strip, as more and more strips deal with the crisis with Israel. Kuheity, Kamboura, and Abdel Routine are making way for Netanyahu, Clinton, and Arafat.
Captions are less amusing, less experimental, and more cutting.
The figure that Hussein says stands in for the Egyptian people. Not brave, but crafty. The Fellah spends most of his time crouched at the feet of the prime minister, telling him what a great job he's doing, regardless of what loose tongues in the village might say about theft and corruption. Represents the ease with which Egyptians are corrupted by money. The snob, utterly oblivious that there is such a thing called poverty in Egypt.