Some more drawings.

Here are some more drawings that I've done since the last batch:

Some recent drawing.

This is some of the drawing that I did this week. I've run out of paper now.

(Click the picture to view a higher res version.)

Keleketla!

These are some photos of the comics workshop taken by Malose and Nkuli of Keleketla!

Showing the kids how to make booklets:

Joubert Park.

I've been meaning to put this up for a while, but have been either emotionally or physically distant for most of that while. I apologise.

In December/November I spent two weeks in Joubert Park, a suburb in Johannesburg's inner city. The suburb is similar to its infamous neighbour Hillbrow. Both areas used to be wealthy whites-only suburbs during Apartheid but saw a rapid exodus of whites as (far) poorer blacks began living there. With the severe exodus of wealth, the area experienced sharp urban decay. Many of the buildings there are now squatted and controlled by 'property warlords'.

I was there to facilitate a comics workshop at the Keleketla! Library located at the historic Drill Hall, where in 1956 Nelson Mandela and 155 other ANC leaders were tried in the Treason Trial for their organized resistance to the newly introduced Apartheid laws. The library is a supercool project that provides kids living in the area with access to reading material and creative workshops. Facilitating the workshop was a wonderful experience and I'd like to do it again. Being in the inner-city was also a wonderful experience, a bit mindblowing.

While I was in Joubert Park I bought a disposable camera and took photos of the area:
(clicking these images will lead you to the higher res versions on Flickr)

My bedroom window looked onto an informal taxi rank. The building diagonally opposite mine was squatted.