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WORLD COMICS INDIA

World Comics Network promotes the use of Grassroots Comics. Started in mid-nineties in India by cartoonist Sharad Sharma, now the network is active in different part of the globe. World Comics has conduct more than 1000 comics workshop in most remote and disturbed areas of the globe and trained over 50,000 common people.

  • Promote Grassroots Comics as development communication tool & medium for self-expression.
  • Giving voice to marginalized groups and people living in remote and conflict and regions.
  • Use comics for advocacy and information dissemination.
  • Use comics to promote literacy.
  • Promote comics as a teaching-learning tool.

GRASSROOTS COMICS

Grassroots comics are simple comics that tell a local story drawn by a local person (not artist) in local language. They are a communication tool for
all citizens that can transcend the barriers of language, literacy, media access, resources and social classes. For these reasons, grassroots
comics have been extremely successful in remote, low literacy areas to developed societies, development and education sector.

World Comics has covered a number of issues in last many years like Human Rights, Health (Disability, Reproductive, Adolescents, HIV/AIDS,
Malaria, Leprosy, Infanticide, Foeticide, Mental Health,) Education, Adult Literacy, Corporal Punishment, Homeless, Gender,
Violence Against Women, Girl Child Rights, Tolerance, Environment, Agriculture, PDS, Local Governance,
Discrimination & Stereotypes, Dalit, Tribal, LGBTQ etc.

IMPACT DASHBOARD

COMICS IN EDUCATION

World Comics has been using Grassroots Comics extensively into education globally. Its mission is
to incorporate the methodology into curriculum in both primary and higher education.

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COMICS IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

Grassroots comics methodology has huge potential to be used into school education. It is not only a powerful teaching-learning
tool but also the entire methodology is participatory and helpful to create an environment to ‘learn without fear’.

COMICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

World Comics is a pioneer organization to use grassroots comics as development communication tool in higher education.
The students and teachers from over fifty universities around the globe were trained in streams like
Journalism & Mass Communication, Development Communication, Fine Art and Social Work.

CAMPAIGNS

In last decade a number of grassroots comics campaigns were initiated in different parts of the globe. These uniqe campaign
methodology was developed by WCI in 2005 with a campaign against foeticide and infanticide in Rajasthan.

NETWORK

Establish independent local networks around the globe.

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The Grassroots Comics movement started in the late nineties in India and later spread to other parts of the globe. World Comics not only trained thousands of trainers across the globe but also formed local independent networks in several countries.
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World Comics Network Thailand:
A number of teachers, students and environment activists formed the group in Bangkok and using the medium extensively across the country.
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Since 2005 UK community groups in UK have been using comics. As a result Community Comics Power-UK came into form, which is actively running several workshops every year.
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World Comics Network-Pakistan was came into being in 2006 in the leadership of Graphic Artist Nida Shams. This network has actively organized many unique workshops across the country till date.
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World Comics Network Nepal:
This network is presently functioning dynamically and is organizing workshops on a wide range of issues such as child rights, road safety, corporal punishment, sexual exploitation of children in the leadership of Nirijana Bhatta.
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World Comics Network Sri Lanka:
This island nation has many comics trainers and activists who are using the medium to promote peace and harmony since 2005 when the first workshop was held here.

COMICS JOURNALISM

Comics Journalism is a new phenomenon. Here Comics Journalist reports from ground zero using the medium of comics.
WCI started popularizing it in South Asian countries to report on developmental issues. World Comics also started a
six months course in comics journalism and published two anthologies showcasing such stories.

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There is a rarity of resources, basic manual, books pdf, training video and
trainers manuals you can download and use for not for profit purposes.

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