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2018 will forever be remembered as the year comic book legend and king of movie cameos, Stan Lee passed away. Last year will also be remembered as the first time Squid Mag celebrated Frank Odoi, a pioneer of comics in Ghana and Kenya with his Akokhan comic series. In their absence are several goggle-eyed creators
2018 birthed 2 killer trends on social media that brought some of Africa’s finest visual creatives into the limelight all of them inspired by the Drawing While Black trend from 2017. These were We Are Nigerian Creatives and United African Creatives. One of these trends, United African Creatives was widely adopted by Malagasy comic artist,
Perseverance and consistency are superpowers available to everyone that only a few elites truly succeed at. Bolaji Olaloye is one of those few elites who took the mantra, practice makes perfect to a cosmic, inspiring level. Every single day last year, the Art Nerd posted a different illustration on his social media. That’s 365 different
2018 was a great year and 2019 is off to an energetic start. As our first post of 2019, it makes sense to recap some of the highlights and downsides of 2018 and to also share some exciting things we have planned and are looking forward to this year. In 2018, you may have noticed
Squid Mag speaks with The Comics Meltdown Group about what the group is about, African geekdom, African comics and the way forward for the group. In October 2018, a surprising and rather disturbing hashtag, #boycotlagoscomiccon2019 surfaced on social media just a month after a successful Lagos Comic Con 2018. Allegations of fraud, deceit and misdeed
There’s a page in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy comic that illustrates one of the ways frogs came to earn the evil mythological status snakes and crows have. Frogs in some cultures are cruel, creepy harbingers of doom – but that’s not always the case. Frogs can also be cute, adorable creatures and Anthill Studios’ Frogeck is
Picture this. You’re in a dungeon filled with rows and rows of comic books with a gun pointed to your head. Your crime, we do not know. But we do know your only way out is to pick out a great comic book the villain would enjoy. Oh, and in 30 seconds. How do you
How well do you remember childhood nursery rhymes like this one, rain, rain go away, come again another day, little children want to play, rain, rain go away? How did you interpret it? How did it make you feel? These are questions Ghanaian creative Emmanuel Dankyi – who is looking to find the devil – is
Scrolling through Julia Naa Shika Odamtten’s Instagram page is a bottomless pool of pure joy you can’t ever get enough of. Rich textures, emotive and colourful gradients, edgy characters, avant-garde fashion and an overwhelming sense of cool draw you into her majestically insane world – a world where your only sin, is to not be true
Ridwan Shades Moshood’s Garbage Boy and Trash Can has been announced as the winner of the first-ever Cartoon Network Africa Creative Lab Competition at DISCOP Joburg 2018. Moshood’s work, Garbage Boy and Trash Can follows the story of a little boy (Garbage Boy), a self-proclaimed superhero and his sidekick, Trash Can on a mission to rid the world
