News
World Comics Finland launches its renewed website!
January 8, 2010
Six months in front of the computer is behind us. Our renewed site is ready and uploaded. We have tried to make it uncluttered and easy to read.
The main site design, image manipulation, and coding has been made by Joonas From, the texts and other content by a group of World Comics Finland volunteers. Sharad Sharma of World Comics India has contributed with valuable advice and a lot of unique material, photographs, comics, drawings and texts. His material has enhanced our website tremendously.
We thank everybody who has helped us, and our special thanks go to the Otto A. Malm Foundation, who generously provided a grant for the website renewal.
Check out the page and send us feedback on: mail@SPAMFILTERworldcomics.fi
Rajasthan report ready
January 6, 2010
The Rajasthan comics workshop report (20 pp.) is ready. The training of trainers workshop was arranged in October 2009 in Gram Vikas Navyuvak Mandal Lapodia (GVNML), Nagar, Rajasthan. The report contains a lot of photographs and drawings by Sharad Sharma, Leif Packalen and Kaisa Leka. It is available as a pdf-file.
A comics exhibition on Bhopal Gas Tragedy
December 2, 2009
A comics exhibition on Bhopal Gas Tragedy was showcased during the "Bhopal blues on wheels: Capturing 25 years" on 1st December 2009. These black & white comics were developed by the children of Bhopal during a three day Comics workshop organized by World Comics India in collaboration with Bhopal Gas Pedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan.
Marking the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, supporters of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal launched this campaign. The Caravan was flagged off by renowned filmmaker and social activist, Muzafar Ali on 1 December at 4:30 pm at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
The caravan travelled to educational institutions and public locations across Delhi. The report includes all the comics, with English explanations.
The report can be read here.
(information from Sharad’s Facebook page)
The first comic book on gay issues launched in Mumbai
November 30, 2009
The Mumbai-based NGO, Humsafar Trust, has launched an illustrated comic book with funding from United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The comic book is cleverly called, Ek Alag Chitra Katha, a spin off on the well-known Indian comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha. The grassroots comic book, is in Hindi.
Humsafar Trust is an NGO dealing with the rights of sexual minorities in India
Humsafar Trust made the book after Sharad Sharma (of World Comics India) ran a three-day workshop at Humsafar's office in Vakola, Santacruz (E). There he trained grassroot workers in recounting anecdotes and sketching them into comics.
(news item from Mid-Day, Mumbai, 9.10.2009)
