Cape Town Zine Project.

Hi,
I'm starting a project called the Cape Town Zine Project. It's quite small at the moment, but it will in the future collect a lot of South African self-published matter in one place, a shop. So far we have the Chimurenganya series and the Jungle Jim series. If you self-publish, please get in touch. The books/zines can be bought at Blank Books, in Woodstock, Cape Town and on the Blank Books website.

Cool

Glück

These are what my new booklet look like. They haven't really gone on sale yet, though I gave three to Blank Books in Woodstock, Cape Town when I was there on Saturday. The booklet was produced as part of the Independent Publishing Project's second iteration at the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg that took place over March and April. For the closing a signed, numbered and dog-drawing-ed edition of five were sold.

A hearty thank you and quick update.

Johannesburg, April 2012

News of two exhibitions and one publication follow after the jump.

Watch out.

A quick update.

It has been a long while since I've written. This while coincides, coincidentally, with a rather action-packed patch of my life as a comic-artist.

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.

Dry and Meaningless.

I'm currently giving comics workshops to the kids at the Keleketla library in JHB. One of the kids copied a panel from a comic of mine that was lying around. The result is pretty surreal.

EDIT:

Here is the original comic: