African Comics
Since 2012, October 11 has been celebrated across the world as International Day of the Girl Child. According to the UN, the day aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face while promoting girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights. The theme of the day this year is GirlForce: Unscripted
It’s not a seahorse, it’s not a ship, it’s a cow — a squid cow. Hold your fins, that’s just Squid Comic of the Week! This week’s comic is Danfo. Kicking off our Squid Cow Digest of African comics is Danfo from explosive publishing newcomer, TAG Comics. Danfo is the story of Emeka, a naive and kindhearted
It’s not a seahorse, it’s not a ship, it’s a cow – a Squid CoW. Hold your fins, that’s just Squid Comic of the Week! Part of our mission at Squid Magazine is to showcase and promote African comics to anyone with a mind to understand, eyes to see and ears to listen. We’ve done
A breakdown of all the Lagos Comic-Con winners in 2019. Lagos Comic-Con is the biggest geek and pop-culture event in West Africa, drawing in scores of animation, comics, games and digital art enthusiasts. Other than being a great gathering for geeks and fans alike, Lagos Colic-Con is also an amazing platform for creators to be
Kugali AR possibly is. In our post on Hero Corps, we talked about how exciting the leap from comic books to animation is. Now imagine pushing that even further with the technologies of today. Imagine pushing storytelling to Ready Player One levels. While not as elaborate, Kugali is on the path to making that, or
This past weekend was a dream come true for many geeks and nerds in Africa with the onslaught of activities at 2 prominent comic conventions on the continent. In Nigeria, the 8th Lagos Comic-Con concluded on a smashing note while in South Africa, the second year of Comic-Con Africa connected the southern African geekdom even
This review of Beast from Venus was extracted from the Daily Nation newspaper (snippet available here). The review was written by Abigail Arunga and published on April 29, 2019. It has been slightly edited for content and clarity. Kenyan comics are experiencing a new wave, in that the quality of illustration is getting better, the
The Nairobi Comic-Con 2019 kicked off last weekend at the Sarit Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. While we couldn’t be there, the photos and videos from the official NAICCON channels provide us with loads of thrills and feels we can’t enjoy alone. Nairobi Comic-Con has successfully held six events, with over 6000 enthusiastic artists, illustrators, comic
“Increased imagination, tolerance for and interest in diverse ideas, spiritualities, religions and people, as well as social awareness” capture speculative fiction writer, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu’s response on the impact of Africans embracing all storytelling genres. This is a most compelling answer, and for comic book lovers, Agbara does just that. The Agbaraa comic is the needle and thread of
Comic books and animation are two distinct storytelling mediums that tend to appeal to the same people thanks to the overlap between them. What happens however when the lines separating the two mediums are completely erased? Drum roll, Man of the Law! Collectible Comics is back with another awesome story. Drumroll, Man of the Law,
