Carol Isaacs is a musician and, as The Surreal McCoy, a well-known cartoonist published in the New Yorker, Spectator and Sunday Times. The Wolf of Baghdad is also an animated slideshow with its own musical soundtrack, which is often performed by a live band including Isaacs on accordion and keyboards, playing music of Iraqi and Judeo-Arabic origin. Carol has worked with many artists including Sinead O’Connor and the Indigo Girls. She is co-founder of the London Klezmer Quartet.
Her graphic memoir, The Wolf of Baghdad is out now, and was selected for The Guardian‘s Best Graphic Novels 2020. She is now working on a special edition of The Wolf of Baghdad for younger people, with the title The Cloak of Baghdad.
Carol was recently winner of the Writing Prize for The Jewish Children’s Book Awards 2021 for her short story Samira’s Stars.