Category: Interviews
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Lets Talk About “Till Death”, The Upcoming Animation We’re Dying to Watch
Who loves a good love story? Well, here’s one for the ages! And we have absolutely no idea what exactly is in it, except, that, Till Death is a feature length animated movie and promises an exciting psychological thriller. The tweet below from Kofi Kyei, one of the creators, filled the entire team with excitement. […]
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Behind the Ink with Kobina Taylor
In August 2013, a collective of young men, excited and wet behind the ears, convened on the colorful and historic streets of Jamestown. They were there to showcase their work to an audience hungry for artistic expression that was rare, imaginative and unlike anything they had ever seen before. In those days, the Chale Wote […]
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Behind the Ink With Poka Arts
Poka Arts is a self-taught animator and illustrator responsible for the majority of the animated Afrobeats music visualizers. If you’re a fan of Mr. Eazi or Afrobeats music, chances are you’ve watched at least one of the many 2D animated “music videos”, tagged as visualizers released between 2017 and now. These visualizers feature amusing and […]
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Fatma n’Parapli: Comic Exploring Women’s Lives, Mental Illness, and Community
This feature on Fatma n’Parapli (Fatma of the many umbrellas) by Safia Ouarezki first appeared on Arab Lit on February 12, 2020 and was written by Nadia Ghanem. It is republished here with permission. Fatma n’Parapli (Fatma of the umbrella) is a comic written in Algerian Derja by Safia Ouarezki. It was a family project, inked by […]
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Squid Alley with Salim Busuru – Traditional African Art and Stories Excite Me
Salim Busuru is an illustrator, character designer, comic artist, animator and game designer from Kenya. He is a founding member of Avandu Vosi, a creative studio based in Nairobi that was formerly UDK or Underground Design Kings. Salim was inspired to get into art by the cartoons and 80’s anime he watched as a child and […]
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The Geek Digest: A Lagos Comic-Con Publication
Comics, animation, film, gaming, interviews, reviews, features, exclusives and more come together in The Geek Digest, a magazine by Lagos Comic-Con. The publication is a West African geek paradise detailing some of the latest happenings as well as the opinions of creators on a number of topics dear to comics, animation and gaming creatives. It […]
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Art for Art Sake – Vortex Interview With Alfred Achiampong
This is an old interview by Vortex Comics with Alfred Achiampong that we pulled up from our archives. GeekAfrica.net, the blogging division of Vortex Comics where this was originally published sometime in 2017. Alfred Achiampong is a Ghanaian illustrator with a talent for fine strokes that smell like rain, in calm, moody hues that set […]