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Bolaji Olaloye’s Daily Drawing Challenge Is Magic For the Future
Perseverance and consistency are superpowers available to everyone that only a few elites truly succeed at. Bolaji Olaloye is one…
Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019
2018 was a great year and 2019 is off to an energetic start. As our first post of 2019, it…
In Conversation With The Comics Meltdown Group on African Geekiness
Squid Mag speaks with The Comics Meltdown Group about what the group is about, African geekdom, African comics and the…
Frogeck Promises a Brilliant Future for 3D Animation in Africa
There’s a page in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy comic that illustrates one of the ways frogs came to earn the evil…
Our Favourite African Comic Book Covers of 2018
Picture this. You’re in a dungeon filled with rows and rows of comic books with a gun pointed to your…
This Ghanaian Animator is Re-Imagining Nursery Rhymes in New Animated Series
How well do you remember childhood nursery rhymes like this one, rain, rain go away, come again another day, little…
Squid Alley with Kwarte Lai – I Draw Inspiration From the Supernatural
There aren’t many artists who blend their anime, manga and superhero comic inspirations into a distinctly African art style like…
Samuel Kabali: The Ugandan Creative Telling Africa’s Stories Via Animation
Samuel Kabali is the founder of Tonda Animation who’s beating all odds and telling unique stories through animation in Uganda. Story by Joan Salmon for Monitor Uganda….