Comics Voice: Comics Power on the road

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Comics Power on the road

April 2, 2010,

Comics Power team was out for road activity with Laxmi Pratisthan team,

the main objective was to share wall comics on traffic awareness to the public,

participation was huge,

even traffic officers could not stop reading the displayed...

despite of the scorching sun overhead, excitement energized the activity.

check the album., in shortcut PICTURES FROM THE DAY

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World Comics FinlandApril 8, 2010 at 4:34 AM
Great to see you are taking the comics power to cover the traffic issue. Nice to see both the workshop and the distribution pictures. I eagerly look forward to see the news-video.
All the best,

Leif Packalen
World Comics Finland
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Comics power is the logo of World Comics network. The network is active in Finland, India, UK, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Brazil, Palestine, Estonia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Benin and Mongolia.

Grassroots Comics are different from the mainstream comics, These comics are made by common people themselves. These comics are photocopied and distributed to a limited area, which encourage local debate in the society. Grassroots Comics are inexpensive and method is not complicated, you just required a pen, paper and access to a copying machine to produce one.

What makes these comics different from professional material is the ownership of the content. The comics are pasted up in all possible locations i.e. village’s meeting place, bus stops, shops, offices, schools, on notice-boards and electricity poles or even on trees.

The campaign comics made by artists are not as close to reality as Grassroots Comics are. The local people understand their culture better. So the people are interested in what produced by their local activists or organizations locally.

The use of Grassroots Comics as a campaigning tool for organizations and people’s movement is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries, in a few countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe.

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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Comics Power on the road

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