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ASouth African comic is a book or periodical published inSouth Africa that containssequential art stories.
South African comics are usually self-published books that cover a wide range of subject matter and styles.
The following list represents comics that are currently available in print:
The following list represents comics that are currently available in webcomic format:
2013 saw the biggest everFree Comic Book Day event organised inCape Town by Readers Den, a comic shop in Cape Town. Local comic creators launch their new publications and showcase their work at these events.[13]
The 2014 Reader's Den Free Comic Book Day event saw the launch of 15 new South African comic books, with some creators traveling from different parts of South Africa for the event.[5] The Reader's Den Free Comic Book Day event was replaced in 2016 with FanCon Cape Town Comic Con, an international comics convention that is held annually in April.
The Open Book Comics Fest forms part of the annual Open Book Festival, which takes place every September in Cape Town. The Open Book Comics Fest promotes South African comic artists, illustrators and cartoonists and includes a marketplace of over 40 tables, curated by Moray Rhoda.[14]
Comic Con Africa debuted in Johannesburg in September 2018.[15][16]
These comic book related events host market places where local comic creators sell and sign their self-published comics, launch new comics and deliver comic-industry-related talks, panels, and workshops.
One of the most successful South African comic creators working on international comic titles and publications isJoe Daly, the creator ofThe Red Monkey,[17]Scrublands,[17]Highbone Theater[18] and theDungeon Quest[17] series.Highbone Theater andDungeon Quest are published in the USA byFantagraphics Books. In Europe,Dungeon Quest is published byL'Association. It was nominated for theIgnatz andEisner awards and won the covetedAngoulême Jury Prize.[19] His work has been described as "surreal, scatological, yet grounded in its depiction of loneliness and longing."[20] Slings & Arrows praised it as "an irreverent satire of geek culture."[21]
Other South African comic creators with international publications include Karl Stephan,[22] the author ofSparko, published bySLG; Sean Izaakse,[citation needed] an artist onPathfinder forDynamite Entertainment and variousMarvel Comics titles; Jason Masters,[citation needed] who has worked forDC Comics on various titles, includingBatman, and for Dynamite Entertainment onJames Bond; andLauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen, who co-wroteSurvivors' Club forDC/Vertigo.[19] Artist Warren Louw[citation needed] illustrates variant covers for KRS Comics.
LJ Phillips has contributed work toBorderx,[23]Future Sci-Fi Tales,Horror Haikus,The Red Ten,Iron Nail Afternoon[24] andDark Encounters among others. Her work has been published under her own name and a malepseudonym. Some of her articles on comics were published by Black Ship Books and included inInto the Comics-Verse: Comics and Contemporary Culture.[25] She has interviewed international comic creators such asTerry Moore,Stjepan Sejic,[26]Liam Sharp andTracy Butler.[27] In August 2020, LJ was the recipient of a comic grant by Eisner-nominated publisher Shortbox.[28] and in 2022, was included in the Otherwise honours list.[29]
There also exists a smallerAfrikaans scene. Notable examples include the alternative and acidicadult comics produced by theBitterkomix collective, which was founded in 1992 byAnton Kannemeyer and Conrad Botes, as well as the grittyColoureds series by brothersNathan andAndre Trantraal.
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