Saturday, January 29, 2011

Stepping ahead with Comics Power


A trainers’ workshop was organized with the workers of sSTEP (Society for Social Transformation and Environment Protection) from 23rd to 25th Dec 2010 at their office in Guwahati. The participants also included people from sSTEP Morigaon and development workers/volunteers from supporting organizations and children.

sSTEP is working with both urban and rural poverty issues in the Guwahati city, and these 18 enthusiastic participants created stories on the issues they encounter most often like child trafficking, environment sustainability issue in Morigaon, woes of the shelterless and so on. The children who participated in the workshop expressed the difficulties they face in their schools due to lack of basic facilities like bathroom and drinking water through the medium of comics. Trainer: Usha

Friday, January 28, 2011

Thinking sensitively...

Young minds seem to think sensitively and sensibly over the issues plaguing our times. From 28th- 30th Oct 2010, Gramya Vikas Mancha with support from Actionaid India organised a comics workshop for children in Anwesha Book Fair held at Chandmari AEC Ground, Guwahati in which children effectively brought out their views over various social concerns.

The participants belonged to T.C Girls’ High School and Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Guwahati. The students were enthusiastic to get pally with a new medium that they had never thought they could also create. Interestingly, the young students expressed their concern over the burning issues of the society such as terrorism and violence. Children also made stories on subjects like child labour, environmental degradation etc. Trainer: Usha

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

New medium for new students...


The fresh batch of 2010 in the Department of Communication and Journalism, Gauhati University was welcomed with a comics workshop organized from 29th Sept- 1st oct 2010. Total 18 students participated in the workshop facilitated by Daisy, Momee, Alongbar and Usha.

The students who had just entered the media course got introduced to this unique medium and created fantastic comics on issues important to them such as hostel pressure, animal slaughter, tobacco control, importance of education and so on.

The students were amazed at the power of the tool to reach out to the unheard.


The village speaks...



'Manas Darpan' is a monthly Comics Wallposter brought out by Mushroom Development Foundation together with World Comics India. The Wallposter is being distributed in various villages spread across North East India. Each issue of the wallposter focusses on an issue important to the community, besides popularising mushroom cultivation.

Creating comics at Sofura summer camp

In their annual summer camp that witnesses flocking of children from various parts of Assam in an array of skill development activities, Sofura organized a comics workshop from 9th to 12th July 2010. 28 children developed amazing comics on a range of issues like child labour, excessive pressure from parents to bring better grades, discrimination etc. Trainer- Usha

Little Voices

sSTEP(Society for Social Transformation and Environment Protection), Guwahati organized a Grassroots comics Workshop from 21st-23rd Feb 2010 in Lakhra, Guwahati, with 30 school students of the area. Since Lakhra is very close to the National Highway and many industries have started cropping up all along its way, the place is very prone to environmental problems. Air and sound pollution being the biggest issues of the people, the workshop gave voices to the young minds of the area. The workshop was conducted by Daisy Sharma, Minakshi and Usha.

Apart from the environmental problems, the comics produced also brought to light a lot of other local issues such as elephant killing, witch hunting, alcoholism etc.