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# ToonZA

The Art and Soul of Comics

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- [WELCOME TO THE ToonZA WILDERNESS PROGRAMME](https://ndmazin.co.za/welcome-to-the-toonza-wilderness-programme/) - After working in Muizenberg with The Hive, Amava Oluntu and The Commons since 2017, ToonZA has relocated to Wilderness on the Garden Route between George and Knysna. We are thrilled to announce our association with Cabesa Gallery, owned and run by Carole Durrant and Biance Ralph, the energetic organisers of the annual Wilderness Art Festival.
- [Africa Unite Against Dirty Coal Power](https://ndmazin.co.za/elementor-11460/) - 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
- [Civil Society in a Failed State: BftW Partners Meeting](https://ndmazin.co.za/bftw-partners-meeting/) - 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
- [GNG! Graphic Novel Group](https://ndmazin.co.za/gng-graphic-novel-group/) - 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
- [<strong>YES, You CAN Draw Comics! Comics Are Necessary! </strong>](https://ndmazin.co.za/yes-you-can-draw-comics-comics-are-necessary/) - 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
- [Learn How to Make Comics](https://ndmazin.co.za/learn-how-to-make-comics/) - 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
- [Monster Battle Recap DEC '21](https://ndmazin.co.za/monster-battle-recap-dec-21/) - 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
- [The ToonZA Origin Story](https://ndmazin.co.za/the-toonza-origin-story/) - 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,
- [SAVE THE WHALES!](https://ndmazin.co.za/save-the-whales/) - 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
- [Intersectional Abstractionisticisms: Hommage to the Surrealists](https://ndmazin.co.za/intersectional-abstractionisticisms-hommage-to-the-surrealists/) - "Habit and Erasure" - an experiment in working according to surrealist precepts, liberating the subconscious through irrationality and enigma.
- [16 Drawings About Gender](https://ndmazin.co.za/16-drawings-about-gender/) - 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
- [Carina's Choice: A Boland Story](https://ndmazin.co.za/carinas-choice-a-boland-story/) - The “Carina’s Choice” comic book was created with SATVI, with the support of the Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Vaccines, as a creative approach to increase community awareness, support and participation in TB vaccine clinical trials taking place in the Boland region of South Africa. “Carina’s Choice” was made available in English, Afrikaans
- [An Organisational History Painting: Challenges and Strategies](https://ndmazin.co.za/project-preparation-trust-ppt-25th-anniversary-history-painting/) - “Fiction is the only source of truth – the rest is fiction”: The use of fictionalisation and mild caricature in an organisational history painting In 2017 I was commissioned by the Durban-based Project Preparation Trust (PPT) to produce a ‘history painting’ commemorating the 25th anniversary of this marvelous developmental organisation. The brief required that the
- [CHAMP - Micromedia Comics for Workshop Processes](https://ndmazin.co.za/champ-comic/) - This 2006-2010 comic project was an early experiment in ‘micro media’ — small editions of bespoke publications designed for workshop processes — in which a cartoon narrative was used to facilitate group dialogue to enhance behaviour change in relation to HIV/AIDS. It is the second 10-episode comic in a two-part series written and illustrated by Andy Mason and
- [ToonZA Holiday Club 4-9 October 2021](https://ndmazin.co.za/toonza-holiday-club-4-9-october-2021/) - It’s The Invasion Of The Krazy Kritters! Over the last few years, ToonZA has run a number of very successful Holiday Workshops, filled with wacky drawings, serious fun and lorryloads of amazing learning! But now, because of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic, meeting in a room packed with enthusiastic wannabe cartoonists is a complete no-no! So,
- [Monster Battle @ The Deep South Community Art Exhibition 15 December](https://ndmazin.co.za/monster-battle-the-deep-south-community-art-exhibition-15-december/) - TOONZA’S MONSTER BATTLE DRAWING GAME COMES TO SCARBOROUGH’S ANNUAL ART SHOW! If you love comics, if you’re one of those people who can’t stop drawing, and if you’re free on the afternoon of Wednesday 15th December, here’s some news to make your fingers itch! Monster Battle, the fan-tastic, hi-intensity, super-fun and ultra-challenging draw-your-own-mini-comic game that will keep
- [A Cartoon Soap Opera](https://ndmazin.co.za/a-cartoon-soap-opera/) - Synopsis Sigmund Froyd, an uber-successful left-leaning dotcom baby boomer, is blackmailed by Y.T. Sharke, the egregious CEO of an evil toxic waste disposal corporation, into a compromising involvement with a dodgy scheme to use the new Secrecy Act to cover up its illegal activities. He escapes with his young P.A., Dot Coza, to a hippy
- [The Legend of Blue Mamba](https://ndmazin.co.za/the-legend-of-blue-mamba/) - Published in 2013, The Legend of Blue Mamba is a wild and wacky look at the South African surfing scene, wrapped up in a horror comic about the commercial exploitation of surf culture and the plundering of our coastal resources. The story began in 1995 in African Soul Surfer, a short-lived Durban surf mag, and
- [TV Worm](https://ndmazin.co.za/tv-worm/) - Here’s an excerpt: A soap opera is like a worm. Each episode is a segment of a never ending non-arthropod invertebrate. At the front end is the story department. The business of the story department is the imagining of the worm. Once or twice a year the story department meets to plot the long
- [May I have a minute of your time?](https://ndmazin.co.za/may-i-have-a-minute-of-your-time/) - They have the world’s worst job but serve an important social function. They are pressure valves, helping people release their pent-up aggression. The army of telemarketers, the spam mail of the cellular world, invade your day with “exclusive offers” – and allow you to take your bad day out on them. It’s not surprising cold
- [African Grantmakers' Network Coffee Area](https://ndmazin.co.za/african-grantmakers-network-coffee-area/) - AGN Coffee Area. This photograph shows posters produced during the African Grantmakers’ Network (AGN) Annual Conference, Johannesburg 2012, and displayed at the tea/coffee area for delegates to peruse, photograph and tweet between sessions.
- [It's not just about the money](https://ndmazin.co.za/its-not-about-money/) - Democracry or Growth? A poster produced during a presentation by Graça Machel at the African Grantmakers’ Network (AGN) Annual Conference, Johannesburg 2012. The poster was produced during the session in pencil and markers and subsequently neatened up for permanent display/publication.
- [Democracy or Growth?](https://ndmazin.co.za/democracy-or-growth/) - Democracy or Growth? Ink and paint marker on canvas, 2013 AGN collection “Democracy or Growth?” a poster produced during a session of the African Grantmakers’ Network (AGN) Annual Conference, Johannesburg 2012. The poster was produced during the session in pencil and markers and subsequently neatened up for permanent display/publication.
- [Don't wait for the drought to fix the dam](https://ndmazin.co.za/dont-wait-for-the-drought-to-fix-the-dam/) - “Don’t wait for the drought to fix the dam”, a poster produced during a session on innovation at the “Finance Ministries in the 21st Century”, Johannesburg, March 2015. The poster was produced in colour during the one-hour presentation using pencil and acrylic paint markers and subsequently neatened up for permanent display/publication.
- [The Siren Song](https://ndmazin.co.za/the-siren-song/) - “The Siren Song”, a poster produced during a session on political challenges facing finance ministries, at the “Finance Ministries in the 21st Century”, Johannesburg, March 2015. The poster was produced in colour during the one-hour presentation using pencil and acrylic paint markers and subsequently neatened up for permanent display/publication.
- [Amadibaland Sketchbook](https://ndmazin.co.za/amadibaland-sketchbook/) - Images and impressions from a three-day ramble through the coastal villages of eastern Pondoland, between the Mzamba and Mtentu rivers, with the Amadiba Community tourism project, September 2017. DAY 1, MORNING: My first sketch was done from the stoep of our cabin overlooking the Mtamvuna gorge, before we headed for the Wild Coast Sun hotel,
- [Slacktivist Café](https://ndmazin.co.za/slacktivist-cafe/) - Quick coffee, fast food, and even faster eco-politico-emotico ‘slacktivism’ — it's all here at the Slacktivist Café. Here are some excerpts: If you want proof of why humans will never be able to agree, all you have to do is visit one of the multiple e-petition sites. The things people want to change about the
- [3o years of Street Law](https://ndmazin.co.za/street-law/) - More than three decades after its original publication in the early 1980s, a new consolidated edition of Street Law South Africa was recently published by Juta and Company Ltd., featuring 20 new N.D. Mazin drawings mainly on gender themes (this aspect of South African law was thoroughly revised in the early 2000s) alongside more than
- [The Mysterious Demise of the Parktown Prawn](https://ndmazin.co.za/the-mysterious-demise-of-the-parktown-prawn/) - Here’s an excerpt: ‘What is the truth, Granma?’ ‘Tell me why are we vanishing.’ I know the answer to this. It’s common wisdom, passed from newt to newt in every nursery. ‘Because of the hadedas, Granma. They followed us to the suburbs and will not stop until they have picked every last one of us
- [Masakhane: Let's Build Together](https://ndmazin.co.za/masakhane-lets-build-together/) - 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

## Pages

- [HOME](https://ndmazin.co.za/) - N.D. Mazin presents ToonZA, a creative collaboration based around visual narrative. We provide ToonStorming, comic art courses and more.
- [ToonZA](https://ndmazin.co.za/projects/toonza/) - Unleash Your AutoBio-Graphic Identity If you’re one of those people who can’t stop drawing, ToonZA is for you. Our obsession is graphic storytelling, whether for entertainment, education or enlightenment. If you want to draw better, make comics, use words and images to tell stories, ToonZA is for you. Our motto, A Luta Cartoonua (The Cartoon Struggle)
- [Educational Comics](https://ndmazin.co.za/services/educomics/) - EDUCATIONAL COMICS A Powerful Teaching Tool Comics are an effective and engaging way to communicate information on even the most convoluted topics. The combination of graphics and text use leads to better processing of subjects, and the use of visual narrative radically improves reader retention and provides a means of fostering discussion. Educational comics make
- [Conference Cartooning](https://ndmazin.co.za/services/conference-cartooning/) - TOONSTORMING The Ultimate Graphic Reportage Conference Cartooning is a form of graphic harvesting that involves standing at an easel or flip chart in a conference room or lecture hall, usually to the side, but sometimes in front of the audience, and producing an on-the-spot documentation of a conference, workshop or brainstorming session in a series
- [BLOG](https://ndmazin.co.za/blog/) - BLOG All Recent Posts 🎨🖼️✍️ WELCOME TO THE ToonZA WILDERNESS PROGRAMME Andy Mason • February 20, 2025 • Uncategorized • No Comments After working in Muizenberg with The Hive, Amava Oluntu and The Commons since 2017, ToonZA has relocated to Wilderness on the Garden … Civil Society in a Failed State: BftW Partners Meeting
- [Privacy Policy](https://ndmazin.co.za/privacy-policy/) - Privacy Policy Who we are Our website address is: https://ndmazin.co.za. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may
- [CONTACT](https://ndmazin.co.za/contact-2/) - Contact I'm Ready, Let's Talk. Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional) The reCAPTCHA verification period has expired. Please reload the page. Contact Information Address​ Scarborough, Cape Town Email Click here Call 800-123-456 Facebook-f Instagram Linkedin
- [GALLERY](https://ndmazin.co.za/gallery/) - GALLERY Fine Art Collections All gallery items are available as editioned digital prints. Please fill out the contact form in the main menu if you are interested in purchasing or commissioning an artwork. All Stone Ancestors Series 2021 Silvermine Series Autumn 2019 Hommages Surfers Corner Series Originals Available Stone Ancestors Portrait Series Part 1 Dino
- [AMAK Animatoons](https://ndmazin.co.za/services/amak-animatoons/) - ANIMATOONS Tell Your Story AMAK (Azania Mania Art Kollektiv) is all about comics, animation and visual narrative. We create and publish Youtube animated explainer videos and animated logos and design campaigns for clients. Mobilise Change AMAK’s virtual studio project puts together creative teams to produce agit-prop animatoons for pro-planet groups and civil society organisations. We
- [ABOUT](https://ndmazin.co.za/about-3/) - ABOUT About Andy Mason Andy Mason (nom de plume N.D. Mazin) is a writer/artist, editor, cartoonist, publisher and communications professional with a Masters degree in cultural and media studies and more than 30 years’ experience in South African communications, publishing and campaign work, with a strong emphasis on visual narrative strategies for public education, mainly in
- [Commissions](https://ndmazin.co.za/services/commissions/) - COMMISSIONS History Painting Artworks commissioned to commemorate a moment in history Project Preparation Trust (PPT) 25th Anniversary An organisational history painting documenting the PPT’s key activities and achievements, the political and geographic context in which its work took place, and 22 recognisable in situ portraits of its staff members and trustees. More info
- [BOOKS](https://ndmazin.co.za/books/) - BOOKS Comix The Legend of Blue Mamba Pre Zanaium, 2013 The Legend of Blue Mamba is a wild and wacky look at the South African surfing scene, wrapped up in a horror comic about the commercial exploitation of surf culture and the plundering of our coastal resources. More info Non-Fiction What's So Funny? Under The
- [Interviews](https://ndmazin.co.za/about-3/interviews/) - Interviews Sunday Times People's Post Khuluma Magazine Carlos Amato (Sunday Times Lifestyle Magazine, September 2014) The Legend of Blue Mamba: A Universal Message Read here. Carl Collison (People's Post, June 2015) SPEECHLESS: South African Comic artists on The State of the Nation CC: Tell us a bit about your background. Where were you born and
- [Stone Ancestors](https://ndmazin.co.za/stone-ancestors/) - STONE ANCESTORS The Legend of the Stone Ancestors There was a time in the future – we know not how far hence – when the entire Cape Peninsula burned with a heat so intense that very few living creatures survived; except, of course, the fynbos, which came back stronger and with more extraordinary variation than
- [COMIX](https://ndmazin.co.za/comix/) - COMIX Comix Azania Mania
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- [PROJECTS](https://ndmazin.co.za/projects/) - Projects More info
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- [Profile](https://ndmazin.co.za/about/) - Curriculum Vitae of Andy Mason (N.D. Mazin) [wptab name=’Bio’] Biography Andy Mason (nom de plume N.D. Mazin) is a writer/artist, editor, cartoonist, publisher and communications professional with a Masters degree in cultural and media studies and more than 30 years’ experience in South African communications, publishing and campaign work, with a strong emphasis on visual
- [AzaniaMania](https://ndmazin.co.za/comics/azaniamania/)
- [Reviews](https://ndmazin.co.za/media/reviews/) - What’s So Funny? Under the Skin of South African Cartooning (Double Storey Books, Cape Town, 2010) Reviews Canadian Journal of African Studies / La Revue canadienne des e´tudes africaines. Vol. 46, No. 2, August 2012, 343–344 What’s So Funny? Under the Skin of South African Cartooning , by Andy Mason, Claremont, South Africa: Double Storey Books, 2010,
- [Interviews](https://ndmazin.co.za/media/interviews/) - The Legend of Blue Mamba Interviews See a PDF of Carlos Amato’s Sunday Times LifeStyle magazine interview with Andy Mason, September 2014 HERE Read Carl Collison’s interview with Andy Mason, published in an edited form in the People’s Post, June 2015. Read Keith Bain’s interview with Andy Mason, published in Khuluma magazine, December 2014
- [What's So Funny?](https://ndmazin.co.za/onlinebooks/whats-so-funny/)
- [Media](https://ndmazin.co.za/media/) - What's So Funny? Under the Skin of South African Cartooning (Double Storey Books, Cape Town, 2010) Interviews Read Sean O’Toole’s interview with Andy Mason about What’s So Funny? At Mahala.co.za HERE Read Sean Brett Davidson’s interview with Andy Mason about What’s So Funny? At Mahala.co.za HERE Reviews Canadian Journal of African Studies / La Revue
- [Conference Illustrations](https://ndmazin.co.za/conference-illustrations/) - [huge_it_gallery id="3"]
- [Book and Magazine Illustrations](https://ndmazin.co.za/book-and-magazine-illustrations/) - [display-posts category=”books-magazines”] [huge_it_gallery id=”2″]
- [Contact](https://ndmazin.co.za/contact/) - You can get in touch with Andy regarding his work or to make any purchases by completing the Contact Form below. Please indicate the art you are interested in in the Subject line below. [bestwebsoft_contact_form]
- [Comix](https://ndmazin.co.za/comics/) - Azania Mania 2 Sigmund Froyd, an uber-successful left-leaning dotcom baby boomer, is blackmailed by Y.T. Sharke, the egregious CEO of an evil toxic waste disposal corporation, into a compromising involvement with a dodgy scheme to use the new Secrecy Act to cover up its illegal activities. He escapes with his young P.A., Dot Coza, to
- [Blog List](https://ndmazin.co.za/blog-list/) - [pt_view id="4d4fbf1620"]
- [Online Books](https://ndmazin.co.za/onlinebooks/) - Below are two of my books now available online. More to be added soon! The Legend of Blue Mamba What's So Funny?

## Portfolio Items

- [TV Worm](https://ndmazin.co.za/portfolio/tv-worm/) - TV Worm Ink and acrylic on paper, 2014. Illustration for a Sunday Times LifeStyle magazine article by Isidingo scriptwriter James Whyle on the process of making a TV soap opera.
- [Street Law](https://ndmazin.co.za/portfolio/street-law/) - Street Law Ink on paper, with digital colouring by Dave Hadlow, 2015 More than three decades after its original publication in the early 1980s, a new consolidated edition of Street Law South Africa was recently published by Juta and Company Ltd., featuring 20 new N.D. Mazin drawings mainly on gender themes (this aspect of South African law was thoroughly revised in the early 2000s) alongside more than 130 existing drawings by N.D. Mazin, Jeff Rankin, Themba Siwela and Grant Cresswell.

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