This feature on Kofi Ofosu originally appeared on Citi Newsroom in October 2020. Parts of it have been republished here with slight edits. Since the age of 10, Emmanuel Kofi Ofosu Sackey has been fascinated with comic books and cartoons. This, together with watching animations, inspired his decision to become a working professional in the
This is a guest post by Emmanuel Sackey, popularly known as Kofi Ofosu, a character designer from Ghana. This post was originally published on his Medium and is republished here with permission. I asked my followers on Instagram for the topics they would like to see answered on my podcast, Fiko’s Corner and this is one of
We’ve been chasing down cool podcasts by African creatives since we started Space Squid. One of these is Fiko’s Corner by our good friend Kofi Ofosu and we’re in love. Have you ever wondered what it is like to become a good illustrator and character designer? Or perhaps, yearned to go behind the scenes with
We recently started a podcast called Space Squid where we cover all things comic books, video games, animation and digital art from Africa. Our podcast complements what we already do on the site. Thinking about ways to grow the podcast had us wondering if there were any other podcasts, audio and video, from Africa that
Kofi Ofosu, aka Braku Star, is a freelance character designer and concept artist from Ghana. Other than designing characters, Kofi loves to imagine and build worlds. Kofi is one of the artists who worked on the award-winning Lake of Tears along with Alfred Achiampong and Setor Fiadzigbey. Kofi has an IP in the works called
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 Lake of Tears graphic novel is helping change that. Setor Fiadzigbey is a brilliant illustrator