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What African Comics Companies Should Learn from Franco-Belgian Comics

The world of comics today is really an exciting one. Besides the deeply intriguing and interesting stories that comics provide to global audiences, they also provide interesting characters and unique worlds that can be used to create more stories and adapt them into different media. Today, comics have grown in popularity in different parts of […]

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Moments in African History that are Great for Comics Creation

For as long as storytelling has existed, history has always been a mine from where storytellers can draw inspiration for their stories. From television to film passing through literature and music, history has always been a place of choice when it comes to creation of stories and entertainment. History recounts past events and these events

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Sex in African comics on Zebra Comics Blog

Sex In African Comics

There are many things that human beings of this generation are obsessed with – money, power, fame, etc. People will do anything to obtain these things, and they show how much our societies have evolved to revere materialism. Among these objects of human obsession is sex. So much ink has been shed, and so much

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African Comics Creators in the Diaspora whose Works Honor Africa

African comics are becoming more and more popular. In the last decade, the sheer amount of quality in African comics creation and the attention that it has garnered is mindblowing. From big publishers like Dark Horse adding African comics to their catalogue, to mega production houses like Universal studios buying adaptation rights to adapt African

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Kingston Bible Religious comics and African Comics on the Zebra Comics Blog

The Place of Religious Comics in the Comic Book Market

Religious comics have been around for decades, but they have yet to find a wide market. Some Christians, Muslims and Buddhists question whether comics are appropriate for religious content, while others shy away from the genre because they think “graphic novel” means adult material. Additionally, some mainstream stores are reluctant to carry comics appealing to

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Africa and the Manga Craze: What African Creators Need to Learn from Japan

Let’s make this clear; Japanese manga is the most popular comic book style in the world. Any human being who has interest in comics should be aware by now that there is no other comic book variation that has more following today than the Japanese version of the artform. From Akira, passing through Dragon ball

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