"Wallposter comics are inexpensively produced educational stories by local NGOs. These stories, which are pasted up on walls and similar places create a lot of interest in the communities. The wallposters are either silk screen printed or made by photocopying. This booklet is a guide in how to make
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wallposter comics."
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"The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) in Dar es Salaam and World Comics- Finland arranged a joint comics workshop in April 2003 in Dar es Salaam. The workshop trained 18 cartoonists and comics artists in how to make anti-corruption campaign comics in close collaboration with an organisation. The
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artists had been chosen from among the the members of Tanzania Popular Media Association (TAPOMA). LHRC provided the professional knowledge on corruption issues. The participants made three to six pages long stories, which are all collected in this report." (Page 1)
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"In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books—which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico—played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state. Studying the relationshi
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p of the Mexican state to its civil society from the 1930s to the 1970s through comic books and their producers, readers, and censors, Rubenstein shows how these thrilling tales of adventure—and the debates over them—reveal much about Mexico’s cultural nationalism and government attempts to direct, if not control, social change. Since their first appearance in 1934, comic books enjoyed wide readership, often serving as a practical guide to life in booming new cities. Conservative protest against the so-called immorality of these publications, of mass media generally, and of Mexican modernity itself, however, led the Mexican government to establish a censorship office that, while having little impact on the content of comic books, succeeded in directing conservative ire away from government policies and toward the Mexican media. Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation examines the complex dynamics of the politics of censorship occasioned by Mexican comic books, including the conservative political campaigns against them, government and industrial responses to such campaigns, and the publishers’ championing of Mexican nationalism and their efforts to preserve their publishing empires through informal influence over government policies. Rubenstein’s analysis suggests a new Mexican history after the revolution, one in which negotiation over cultural questions replaced open conflict and mass-media narrative helped ensure political stability." (Publisher description)
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"Ausführlichst behandelt werden die amerikanischen und frankobelgischen Klassiker, während die Entwicklung des amerikanischen Undergrounds, der nordeuropäischen Szene oder Japans nur oberflächlich nachgezeichnet sind [...] Als Nachschlagewerk kann das chronologisch gegliederte, reich illustriert
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e Buch durchaus wertvolle Dienste leisten." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 8./9.2.1997)
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