These illustrations represent the best and worst case scenarios developed by participants in the ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability – Africa programme. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is the world´s leading association of cities and local governments dedicated to sustainable development. ICLEI is a powerful movement of 12 mega-cities, 100 super-cities, 450 large cities and […]
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ToonZA was invited to join the Brot für die Welt (Bread for the world) partner consultation to illustrate the discussions and outcomes of the conference in cartoon form. BftW supports local organizations in more than 90 countries all over the world in their work for social justice, equality and human rights. In South Africa they
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In September 2021 we attended the annual Africa Coal Network (ACN) conference and created a series of images based on the discussions amongst the delegates. These were turned into an animatoon title AFRICA UNITE AGAINST DIRTY COAL POWER. The ACN represents a collaborative effort to strengthen struggles against the development of coal power and to
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Come let your Fingers do the Talking and experience the unique hi-intensity action-packed ToonZA Tactics designed to Draw You Back Into Life! Every Thursday at Amava Oluntu from 5.30 to 8.30 pm. Mamba Comix, GrafLit Mag and cool sticker prizes! 20% ToonZanian Discounts! Join the Sketchbook Club! It’s Heaven to Draw like Hell! Bring your
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Learn to Draw Comics While Having Fun – The ToonZA CAT Way! Since the beginning of March, when we formally joined Amava Oluntu and relocated ToonZA to Muizenberg, we have been very busy putting together our best programme so far, which includes all our favourite activities, and more. We have created two new groups, the Comic
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TOONZA ’22 PRESENTS A HI-INTENSITY ACTION-PACKED SATURDAY AFTERNOON COMICS COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (UNDER 16) WHO JUST CAN’T STOP DRAWING! YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR OWN COMICS? COME TO TOONZA AND LEARN ABOUT: * Different kinds and styles of comics* The stages of comic strip production* Building a story idea* Creating unique characters* Developing your
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Covid! Pollution! Evil people! These were just some of the fiendish monsters that our intrepid ToonZA warriors faced at Monster Battle, ToonZA’s signature fun-tastic, ink-redible, draw-your-own-mini-comic game that was part of the programme of 2021’s Deep South Community Art exhibition. The three hour workshop flew by! Participants started off with a series of self-portraits to loosen
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Thousands of years ago, here at the southernmost tip of Africa, our early human ancestors started daubing comic strips on the walls of caves and carving cartoon characters onto rocks. These were the first ToonZAnians. The craze immediately caught on and spread like wildfire around the world, from ancient Egypt to India, China and Japan,
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Pics and banner collab by Bridget Rutter @sweetmiffy. Sticker co-design and colours by Robyn-Jade Hosking @robynjade.art To say that last Sunday’s paddle out in protest against continued seismic survey applications was not very well organised, as some people have, is not really fair. It was not so much an organised protest as an invitation to
Initially entitled “Last Thoughts of a Dying Dog,” this painting was part of an attempt towork according to the precepts of Surrealism, as elucidated by Sarane Alexandrian, authorof Surrealist Art (World of Art) who was part of the movement: Instead of teaching a system, the surrealists … set out to liberate the workings of
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A selection of drawings depicting real-life case studies of gender-based violence. All illustrations originally appeared in the legal manual Street Law South Africa (Juta & Co, 2015). Find out more Teenage girls set up a satirical website to humiliate boys. A man tries to kiss a woman he doesn’t know at a music festival. A father
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