Browsing: Comics

Two Canadian sisters with disabilities, who constantly find themselves in weird and absurd situations in a world dominated by non-disabled people, share their everyday experiences in this blog. And this mainly in the form of their own comics.

The term “Madgermanes” is used in Mozambique to refer to the approximately 15-20,000 people who worked as “contract workers” in the GDR between 1979 and 1991 – and were subsequently deported from the GDR, having been cheated out of most of their wages by Mozambique.

In her autobiographically influenced comic, Marjane Satrapi tells of growing up during the so-called “Islamic Revolution” in Iran in the late 1970s, the Iran-Iraq War, and her early exile in the diaspora in Vienna.

Canadian David. In this graphic novel, H.T. Wong uses the Wong family as an example to tell the story of the first Chinese immigrants to the United States. A story that is marked by resistance to a racist policy of discrimination over the entire narrative period of five generations.

Art Spiegelman tells the story of Auschwitz survivor Wladek in his graphic novel. The character is based on Spiegelmann’s father, and the narrative setting – the father telling his son about the Holocaust and his memories of it – also bears strong autobiographical traits.

In this comic, Vina Yun addresses the story(s) of Korean migration to Vienna in the 1970s, using the example of her family. In different episodes, the lives and everyday experiences of two generations, mother and daughter, are told.

“Politics, things that make you think, and recreational breaks” – that’s how Emma describes her blog and the content she draws on.

A new brochure from the Austrian Quix – Collective for Critical Educational Work is dedicated to the topics of “Gender, Sexuality and Desire” in educational work. The focus is on educational work in the context of development policy, especially international voluntary services.

The subject of the anthology “Raus Rein” by Marion Hulverscheidt and Hendrik Dorgathen is the colonial school in Witzenhausen. The…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqRXZJYeRzM Bino & Fino ist eine herausragende nigerianische Cartoon-Serie für Kinder über Geschichten, Geografien und Kulturen in Afrika von den…

“It’s about emancipation, about how privilege works, and about space to breathe. […] I want theories to be understandable,” says…