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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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Heikki Jokinen
Comics are extremely powerful. They are interesting and exciting and they create experiences.
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