Cameroon
Impressions from Yaoundé

The five-day AFRICOMICS workshop in Yaoundé provided for mutual exchange and lots of fun. Participants were 11 promising comic artists from Yaoundé, Douala and Bafoussam, moderated by a tandem of Sebastian Lörscher from Berlin and Hugues Bertrand Biboum from Yaoundé. The workshop took place after the annual comic festival Mboa BD Festival, which co-organised the workshop.  For the Goethe-Institut Cameroon, it was the first collaboration with the Mboa BD Festival and the young Cameroonian comic scene in a long time. The workshop encouraged all sides to strengthen the cooperation and to develop and implement further encounters and events together.

The workshop facilitators

© Hugues Biboum Hugues Bertrand Biboum was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in 1986. He is a graphic designer, illustrator, 2D animator, comic book writer and artistic director at Waanda Stoudio. After graduating from high school, he studied fine arts at the University of Yaoundé. He participated in numerous projects and worked as a storyboarder, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher and as a landscape architect. He is the author of several comics, such as “Djo'o bar”, published by TOOM. His favourite subjects are humorous and cartoonish comics with a satirical tendency. He was invited to the Salon de Genève and Yaoundé 2018 and to the Mboa BD 2021.
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© Sebastian Lörscher Sebastian Lörscher, born in Paris in 1985 and raised near Munich, is a drawer and author living in Berlin. He studied visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg and at the Berlin-Weißensee Academy of Art. His graphic novels have received numerous awards (including the Sondermann Prize and from the Stiftung Buchkunst) and are published by various publishers in Germany and France. Lörscher's most recent works deal in particular with the medium of drawn reportage. With pen and sketchbook, he roams distant countries and records his impressions in drawings, texts and image sequences. He recounts them in his books and in readings in Germany. His most recent projects have taken him to Bangalore in southern India, to the Caribbean state of Haiti, through wild Austria and most recently to Nigeria. He works for his clients in the fields of illustration and graphic recording and gives all kinds of workshops on drawing and storytelling.​​​​​​​
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