The medium of comics is widespread and very popular in large parts of Congolese society and in its multifaceted diversity, it combines various strategies of expression in the visual arts. In this digital project, the International Comic Salon Erlangen would like to present the variety of Congolese comics by means of individual contributions to particular phenomena and perspectives created in experimental and decolonial collaboration of the participating artists and curators from Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, the Congolese diaspora and Erlangen.
- Judith Kaluaji
- Live: Kinshasa
Everyday Heroines
Comic artist Judith Kaluaji’s stories are inspired by the strong women in her environment in Kinshasa. In her comics the woman is everywhere: sometimes she is femme fatale, in her appearance and words, sometimes the opposite, but the artist always presents the image of a liberated and self-confident woman.
- Rocky Production
- Mukenge/Schellhammer
- Comics
- Live: Kinshasa
A printing process adapted to the tropical climate / Rocky Episode II
Rocky Production reveals some of the secrets of popular cartoonists and shows the printing process that makes his comics special.
- Yann Kumbozi
- Mukenge/Schellhammer
- Comics
- Discourse
Between fiction and reality
Yann Kumbozi is a scenarist, illustrator and publisher of his own auteur comics. In this interview he explains why fiction is often more interesting for him than reality.
- Al'Mata
- Barly Baruti
- Mukenge/Schellhammer
- Comics
Working methods and drawing techniques of Al’Mata and Barly Baruti
Creating a comic strip requires a lot of work, especially for the cartoonist. Here the artists Barly Baruti and Al’Mata show their working methods and the special drawing techniques that makes their styles so extraordinary.