Angola.
Angola
1968
Angolan comics history is thinly documented.
Early examples include A vitória é certa, a literacy manual in comics form produced by the MPLA in 1968, and Man'kiko, a character created by Sergio Picarra in 1984 that was an immediate success. Henrique Abranches, a writer and public figure, set up schools to spread comics, and newspaper cartoonists such as Casimiro Pedro of Jornal de Angola carry the political tradition. Since 2010 the Luanda Cartoon team has taken part in the Luso-Angolan fanzine BDLP.
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Artists from Angola in the archive.
Comics from Angola in the archive.
A vitória é certa: Manual de alfabetização, the earliest comic from Angola in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Angola began.
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Angola in 2 chapters
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Angola.
2 chapters
Chapter 1
1968
to 1984
Liberation comics and Man'kiko
1968
to 1984
Chapter 01
Liberation comics and Man'kiko
In 1968 the MPLA produced A vitória é certa, a literacy manual that told of African resistance to Portuguese colonial rule in picture form, and Universo HQ counts it among the earliest African comics. In 1984 Sergio Picarra introduced Man'kiko, which was an immediate success and made him one of Angola's best-known cartoonists.
2006
to today
Chapter 02
Press cartoons and the BDLP fanzine
Newspaper cartoonists such as Lito Silva, who published the collection Recortes da História in 2006, Casimiro Pedro and Armando Pululo comment on Angolan politics. In 2010 the Portuguese author João Mascarenhas and the Angolans Lindomar and Olímpio de Sousa of Luanda Cartoon started the fanzine BDLP, which won the best fanzine prize of the Amadora comics festival in 2013 and a Brazilian HQ Mix trophy in 2014.
The comics to know
- A vitória é certa: Manual de alfabetização1968 · comic book seriesMPLA (anonymous authors). Literacy manual in comics form on resistance to Portuguese colonial rule.
- Man'kiko1984 · comic stripSergio Picarra. Character that brought Picarra immediate success.
- BDLP2010 · comics magazineJoão Mascarenhas, Lindomar and Olímpio de Sousa. Luso-Angolan fanzine of Portuguese-language comics, nominated at Angoulême in 2014.
The people to know
- Sergio PicarraCreator of Man'kiko, introduced in 1984; one of Angola's most recognised cartoonists.
- Henrique AbranchesWriter and public intellectual who started schools to promote comics; Africa Cartoons lists Mankiko covers and O Rei Contente among his works.
- Casimiro PedroMain cartoonist of the newspaper Jornal de Angola.
- Lito SilvaLuanda political cartoonist; author of the collection Recortes da História (2006).