Photo Comics

Hahahaha! this no be porn na art! hahahaha! 

You know, when i was a lot younger, i used to read comics a lot.  Superman, Mad Magazine, Batman, Tin-Tin all kinds.  However, i really wish u guys the best o.  then, we didn't have many alternatives and even television was strictly NTA.  Now, there's the internet, cable tv and kids of nowadays just don't read anymore.  They are more challenged by animated visual stimuli.  How many adults read these days?  Apart from newspapers, most adults don't read fiction, not to talk of non-fiction.

The photo comics might work, but you will really have to create a storm of awareness for your target audience.  Then your content will really matter.  People usually enjoy reading violence and sex these days.  A creation like captain africa wouldn't sell right now.  Even superman has been adapted into several motion pictures and the latest "superman returns" was pretty cool.

So, how are you actually going to get people to start reading again?

I think i agree.  Funny thing is that youths of today can barely read, speak less of write.  I'm not talking about those that go to private schools, but the majority that go to public schools.  I have friends in the banks that can't spend 5 minutes reading a book (especially if it's not the newspaper).  Fiction is completely out of it.  Example:  My favourite authors are Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum and I have all their books.  These authors usually write books with a minimum of 500 pages and i can finish that within 3 days (though this depends largely on my work schedu)0  It couls take a month sometimes.  Imagine someone seeing me with a large paperback and looking at me as if i came from another planet.  The internet is both good and bad.  i usually have to be online because my job dictates it.  If i don't read and update myself, I lose track of my industry.  But most people go online to commit internet fraud, chat or check out porn sites.  They are either financially rewarding or visually rewarding.  Without a visual stimuli, people are not interested in reading.

Maybe we should just pray for them.

Seun,
The dogs acted better than the humans in the previous photocomics.

On reading.
Nigerians will read if we encourage them to cultivate the habit.

Someone can read 500 pages of fiction on Nairaland without knowing it. A good example is the celebrated case of Papermoon. Most of us consumed the whole fiction and would have continued if not for the timely intervention of nemesis.

The most popular posts are cues for the reading tastes of most Nigerians.


 

I don't know if you knew about this two pages but maybe they can be an inspiration for your photo comic and even other stories you are trying to come up with.

http://www.abeokuta.org/Atoka1aNew.htm

http://www.abeokuta.org/Atoka1ac.htm

Here's another layout sample of the upcoming photo-comic (printed size: A4).

Now here comes the Comics/Cartoons Carnival in Lagos from September 14 to 17 at the 8th Lagos Book and Art Festival.

Top comics producers like The Design Jockey Sessions, Imperial Creation Studios (where the outstanding Chime Olile still produces comics), Pandora Comics, Cowry Comics, the Cartoonists Association of Nigeria and Komik werks from America will show their best works at the carnival.

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