Celebration of International Women’s Day with Comics

Friday, May 29, 2009

Celebration of International Women’s Day with Comics

Indus Institute for Research and Education organized one-day exhibition of Grassroots Comics to mark the International Women’s Day on March 8, 2009 at Sindh Language Authority in Hyderabad,

Pakistan

. Apart from

Pakistan

there were comics from

India

SriLanka

and

Nepal

drawn by common people of these countries. More than 150 people participated from all walks of life. The seminar was organized to create awareness among people regarding women rights and pay tribute to the common women of our society who fought and tried to get their rights. Apart from Grassroots Comics, speeches, skit, poetry, songs and theater performance was prepared for the guests.

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UnknownMay 30, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Powerless but Enthusiastic GIRLS looks intently COMICS POWER !
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Nida ShamsMay 30, 2009 at 3:23 AM
Thanks Khizar.
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Comics power is the logo of World Comics network. The network is active in India, Finland, UK, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Brazil, Palestine, Estonia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Benin and Mongolia.

Grassroots Comics are different from the mainstream comics, These comics are made by common people themselves. These comics are photocopied and distributed to a limited area, which encourage local debate in the society. Grassroots Comics are inexpensive and method is not complicated, you just required a pen, paper and access to a copying machine to produce one.

What makes these comics different from professional material is the ownership of the content. The comics are pasted up in all possible locations i.e. village’s meeting place, bus stops, shops, offices, schools, on notice-boards and electricity poles or even on trees.

The campaign comics made by artists are not as close to reality as Grassroots Comics are. The local people understand their culture better. So the people are interested in what produced by their local activists or organizations locally.

The use of Grassroots Comics as a campaigning tool for organizations and people’s movement is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries, in a few countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe.

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