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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
There hasn’t been a more iconic, feisty and inspiring character than Stan Lee in comic books and pop-culture and we lost him this week. Stan Lee, who was a driving force of Marvel Comics and in effect, the inspiration for millions of people across the world to go into comics has left a glorious legacy
I first came across Emmanuel Dankyi’s (ed. for short) work during the promotion of the first Artmosphere Design Experience (dEX for short) event sometime in March of 2018. His fun, out-the-box ideas, colour choices, geometric patterns, refreshing animations, expressive photos and subject matter got me hooked. Several months after encountering his work, ed. has become
In a world where superheroes abound, full-bodied and a fantastical extension of what we’re already familiar with, Farida Bedwei’s Karmzah is a fresh take. Farida, a technologist and disability rights advocate in collaboration with Ghanaian creative studio, Leti Arts recently launched the hotly anticipated Karmzah to an eager crowd. Tuesday, October 30th at the Leti
The first edition of Artmosphere launched in March this year and it was heartily received. Artmosphere is a design meet up and at it’s core, a way for visual storytellers and design enthusiasts to network, share their portfolios and most importantly, draw inspiration and learn from each other. It’s easy to conclude that Ghana’s design
If you agree that the world is nothing without creativity, then you can’t miss this year’s MESH Confab. Meet, Explore and Share creativity over two days at the National Theatre from the 13th – 14th of July 2018. The MESH Confab, now in its sixth year, is an annual gathering of creators across disciplines showcasing their work. From animators
Cartoon Network and Gulli, the Lagardère-owned kids network, are doubling down on African animation. Gulli announced in Gulli announced in Annecy June 14 that it’s pre-purchased L’arbre à Palimpseste (The Tree of Palimpsest), an animated TV series by Togo’s Ingrid Agbo, for broadcast across its Gulli Africa network. Turner, meanwhile, is upping its stake in the continent’s animation industry with
British manga creators announce all ages Kickstarter campaign for new graphic novel, Hot Lunch. The exhilaration over Marvel’s Black Panther has increased demand for diverse representation in the comic book stories we read. That demand extends to creators themselves with less than a quarter of the creators in the big three comic publishers (Marvel, DC, Image)
LOUIS LUBEGA (Master Rui) is a Ugandan writer, illustrator and painter best known for his on-going dark fantasy webcomic, OLWATUUKA (Once Upon A Time). His webcomic OLWATUUKA which explores death, demons and glorious rebirth sets the tone for most of his work. Louis’ illustrations, just like his webcomic are mostly dark, haunting, imaginative, mysterious but very
