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1. Comics Anthropology.

Author

Pollmann, Joost

Subjects
COMIC books, strips, etc., PUBLISHING
Abstract

The author discusses initiatives he started or was involved in that aimed to promote comics and cartoons from Eastern Europe, Southern America, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. He talks about how his explorations of comics in Africa have taught him about the lack of an infrastructure for the financing, publishing, and distributing of comic art in the greater part of the continent. He also talks about the unequal spreading of comics as an art form in Eastern Europe.

Published
2011

2. South African health campaigns dominate the political landscape.

Author

O'Toole, Seas

Subjects
SOCIAL movements, SEXUAL health, HIV, AIDS, AIDS prevention, INFECTIOUS disease transmission, COMIC books, strips, etc., SOCIAL processes
Abstract

The article offers information related to the variety of macro-level initiatives aimed at encouraging changes in sex hygiene among a broad range in South Africa. The most prominent of initiatives includes the social change project initiated by the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication. The printed HIV/AIDS Action Pack of the Soul City includes materials which aimed at a broad range of people involved in education or training. It also includes the two comic books in the pack which talks about the issues ranging from transmission, prevention, stigma and discrimination to the HIV test, care and support.

Published
2004

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