Rocky Production’s Popular Comics are offered by many vendors in markets and schools. Cultural journalist Ketshia Ngamala investigates how Rocky and two vendors organise the distribution of the comics, what their customers like and why comics are more than a hobby for them.
Sebastian Loerscher is a illustrator and author living in Berlin. With pen and sketchbook he records his impressions as drawings, texts and image sequences. As part of the Africomics project of the Goethe-Institut he visited Kinshasa and documented his journey as a drawn reportage.
Asimba Bathy has realized the childhood dream of many Congolese: he found a way to embody the Congolese comic book hero named Kasaduma.
A conversation as part of the “Café littéraire de Missy” (Missy’s Literature Café): Missy Bangala is a journalist, cultural manager and initiator of the Literature Café and invites Hilaire Mbyie, professor at the Pedagogical University of Kinshasa and comics specialist, to a conversation about the history of Congolese comics.
