Description
Art/Story Willem Samuel
You don’t see a lot of comics coming out of South Africa. For that matter, you don’t see a lot of comics about South Africa. Could it be that, with a history of oppression, insurrection, a leader of legendary status who survived confinement and worse, to emerge with his ethics and dignity intact, and a land of astonishing beauty where the people struggle almost daily to try to heal the wounds inflicted on a land they all love, that no one was able to find a story worth telling?
Yeah. Right.
Which brings us to Mengelmoes, the first issue of which you’re about to read.
Willem Samuel was a teenage boy, growing up in the 1990s. Like any teenager, the world is a confusing place, where you have to find your friends and discover who your enemies are. Unlike a lot of teenagers, he was growing up in South Africa. Fortunately for us, Willem is a brilliant artist and storyteller, who documented his life and times as it happened – Willem’s way of dealing with a dramatically changing world.
Mengelmoes is Willem’s autobiographical story of growing up in interesting times. We’ll experience South Africa as he saw it, including many and varied flights of imagination.
Oh, and Mengelmoes? It means mish-mash.
50 pages, black and white. Prestige format.
