Go, Read: BBC Article On Congolese Comics This much-traveled and linked-to article on the BBC about comics in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the kind of thing we tend to read at a remove: such profiles are all-too-common in this modern features world. I thought this one picked at some delicate tensions, however: the idea of its relationship to Belgium having an influence as to how comics are viewed there, the notion that a recent group of cartoonists traveling to the country wanted to expose local cartoonists to newer artists, the way that a art can reflect a city's self-image and how a growing industry can change the rules of making comics for the sake of artistic expression. We talk in this country about the industry infrastructure being disabled for various reasons, but the infrastructure for books sales has been literally destroyed in the Congo. Still, comics live on.
