We are many!
Comics trainers, development activists and communication professionals, as well as comics artists and critics, are all enthusiastic over the potential of grassroots comics.
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Jamisse Domingos Ofisse
People who participate in this program think about the themes and issues themselves. Although the issues are serious, it is fun to make comics. While making the comics, the participants gain a lot of knowledge on the issues at hand.
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Shukri Omar
First I was apprehensive; could it really be possible for everybody to make comics? To my amazement all the workshop participants learned the skill easily and used it with enthusiasm. Probably to divide the process of making comics into very small steps, does the trick.
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Isaak Traoré
I believe comics are good for communication, especially to the world's illiterates. The comics also improve our reports, because they attract people to have a closer look.
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Johanna Rojola
Before my first grassroots comics workshop I had some doubts about the relevance of our work. However, the results were astonishing. Visual storytelling is a really good tool in general, and grassroots comics is an excellent application of it.
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K. Kannan
I do not remember when exactly I got in touch with World Comics but the interest in comics as a medium of development communication started as an offshoot of my interest in alternate/community media and in the belief that media can be a great tool for empowerment of the masses.
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Sanna Hukkanen
At the moment I'm tutoring grassroots comics workshops for the physically disabled, the mentally handicapped and their parents, and for albinos, who have recently faced a fear of being murdered in Tanzania.
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Sunday Ngakama
Since the time I came to know about grassroots comics, I feel like improving more in it. I consider it a very interesting medium which can be used in community to change the way people think and feel about issues.
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Rabin Raj Niraula
I really experienced the diverse flavor of grassroot comics that I believe is the most powerful communication tool at the grassroots level.
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Dr. John A. Lent
With the dominance of so-called high tech media, most scholars, media practitioners, and middle and upper class people have forgotten (if they ever knew in the first place) what Packalen and others keep in the forefront of their minds – that most of the earth's inhabitants do not have access to nor can they afford the simplest of the so called high tech media.
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Heikki Jokinen
Comics are extremely powerful. They are interesting and exciting and they create experiences.
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Heidi Leino
I think the grassroots comics method is special in many ways. It forces you to develop and elaborate your message into its most essential. It also gives an equally strong voice to more silent and shy persons. And it catches the interest of everybody.
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Frederick Noronha
It never ceases to surprise you how powerful an idea can be. As they say, ”a single drop of ink, can make a thousand people think.
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