Dr. John A. Lent
A quote from a review by Dr. John A. Lent on the book Grassroots Comics – a development communication tool by Leif Packalen and Sharad Sharma:
What Packalen, Sharma, and others do with grassroots media continues to be important in spite of the diminishment of interest in such small scale technologies since the 1970s, when the New World Information and Communication Order, the philosophies of Freire and E.F. Schumacher, and the practical work of many NGOs held sway.
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.
What Packalen and colleagues are doing is extremely worthwhile and should be reported, which Grassroots Comic - A Development Communication Tool so capably does.
John A. Lent,
IJOCA. Fall 2007
John A. Lent, Ph.D., founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Comic Art, is the author or editor of 70 books and monographs and hundreds of articles, many dealing with comic art.
