Comics in Nepal
Grassroot Comics now have many fans in Nepal as well. In 2005 a Comics workshop was organised in Kathmandu for South Asian country children including Afghanistan. The workshop was organised with Save The Children-Sweden. Since participants speak different language so there were interpreters to help them. But as soon as the session begins even interpreters started drawing and completed their own comics. The workshop ended with an exhibition of the comics. Everybody liked the idea.
Saurav Shreshtra was interpreter for Nepal group. After this workshop he team up with one of the participant Nirijana Bhatta and organised a workshop for 24 children of Hatemalo Sanchar-a children’s organisation in August 2005. The result was overwhelming and comics were convincing. So the team of two organised many more workshops later in 2005 and 2006. Two more new trainer Santosh Maharjan and Pinky Bijayananda also joined the team and helped to spread the grassroot comics in this Hindu Rashtra. This year (2007) the group got invitation apart from their own network, CWISH and Loo Niva are the organisations who has invited this group to organise similar workshops. So far group has trained 172 children and youth in comics making art.
These comics has been published in "SUNKESHRA" a monthly children’s magazine which is widely distributed in different parts of Nepal. As well as, 10 thousand copies of magazine BAL SANSAR (Children’s World) special Comics edition was published.
The group has also exhibited these comics in public places on Children's Day (August 20, 2005) in the premises of District Development Office, Lalitpur and on New year 2007 at Chabahil Chowk, Kathmandu.





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