Squid Alley with Louis Lubega: African Comics, Games and Animation Are a Sleeping Opportunity
Welcome to the #SquidAlley with Sonwabo Sonik Valashiya, graphic designer, illustrator and meister of colour and grit!
Squid Alley with Kaz: Inspiration is Endlessly Pouring In
In July 2017, we started Squid Alley, an initiative that shed light on some of the creatives — illustrators mostly — whose work we were in love with. The goal was and still is to get right into it by asking very quick and direct…
Agogho Franklin On Zebra Comics, Cameroon and African Identity
Besides Aya of Yop City (Ivory Coast) and Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan (Cameroon), we have done very little on French-speaking African nations in our coverage on African comics. Let’s change that. Franklin Agogho is the co-founder of Zebra Comics, a collective of…
On Animation and Twisted Humour: A Chat with Selorm Dogoe
When I first saw his short film “Flower”, I went mad with excitement. The plot of the animation was like none I’d ever seen, and it certainly wasn’t one I expected. “Flower” was the gateway to discovering the incredibly talented…
Lake of Tears: The Graphic Novel Exploring Child Trafficking On The Volta Lake
Ask me to name 5 African comics off the top of my head in a minute and I’ll name more than 10 in less that time. Ask me about Ghanaian comics however and I’ll be found wanting. Thankfully, Setor Fiadzigbey’s…
For Us By Us: Greg Anderson-Elysee On Creating Is’nana The Were-Spider And African Comics
Wouldn’t it be cool if Ananse, the mighty trickster god of Ashanti folklore was turned into a comic book hero? Cooler still if he was in a pickle and needed saving by one of his offspring; possibly Ntekumah or Anansewa?…
Squid Alley with Sonwabo “Sonik” Valashiya
Welcome to the #SquidAlley with Sonwabo Sonik Valashiya, graphic designer, illustrator and meister of colour and grit!
