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.

Usha Dewani

As a student of Mass communication, I think grassroots comics has the potential to address the unaddressed, since it does not squarely state things and information but can provide a deeper and bigger picture of the issue in concern. Read more

Nida Shams

My experience of grassroots comics is quite interesting, it was not just about learning or teaching new tool but it has changed my path. I was willingly involved in developmental work and activities but my degree and profession was entirely different, that’s what I was assuming at that time. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

Ashraf Patel

There is no doubt about the power of the medium of grassroots comics. It is like magic to me how the power is unleashed in the course of a workshop. Read more

Heikki Jokinen

Comics are extremely powerful. They are interesting and exciting and they create experiences. Read more

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. Read more


Samples of comics

Samples from different parts of the world on different issues.View


Further reading

People often think that comics are for youngsters, because those are the comics they see. Read more


Why comics?

Ten arguments for why to use comics Read more


Frequently asked questions

Grassroots comics are a new phenomenon and the same questions are asked everywhere. Read more


Free material downloads

Manuals, instructions, presentations, publications, etc. View