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Article: Campaigning comics.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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OVER THE CENTURIES, everything from temperance to usury, land reform to human rights, has been popularized in a simple yet sophisticated marriage of pictures and text.
The number of pressure groups and organizations keen to exploit comics is a measure of the power of this hybrid medium. The Sandinistas used comics and the World Bank still does. There have been campaigning comics about the sins of multinationals and the horrors of neo-colonialism, but there have been others arguing the need for nuclear power in India and mythologizing unpopular Africa leaders.
Campaigning comics are ephemeral--quickly produced, easily read and rapidly passed on. Reviewing ...