Edited and Compiled by
Sharad Sharma, Cartoonist (Ashoka Fellow)
130 - Comics from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
(With Hindi and English summaries)
About The Book
World Comics India* has recently published a book entitled ‘Half World Four Frames’, on the subject of ‘Gender’. In the book, 130 comics from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, popular as Grassroots Comics, have been reproduced. Common people of these countries have drawn their stories in their inimitable way putting fore their views on women’s issues. This book has six sections, titled as Aware, Empowered, Raising Questions, Realisation, Strong and United.
Many of the comics from Pakistan depicts honour killing, right to divorce, plight of the impoverished girls etc. Comics from Sri Lanka have highlights issues like exploitation in the working place, discrimination, domestic violence etc. The Comics’ book has not only reproduced comics on the problems but it also depicts women who take a central role either when the village faces a water crisis or in running a stone quarry for economic empowerment, The book also contains comics where women take up cudgels to stop the selling of illegal liquor or when they put up a brave front against the goons, who intimidate women in the village.