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3. ANALYSIS
Four different groups of comics are examined in this analysis. Reference will be made
to other examples and publications, but the comics examined in greatest detail will be
Morai (from Cape Town) Komiksoc (Grahamstown), Desire (Johannesburg), and
Bitterkornix (Stellenbosch). I have chosen to focus on these particular groups because
each has produced comics of a similar format consistently over the same period of time.
None of the artists had produced comics before embarking on these projects; the
mechanisms of comics are thus easily exposed as the artists struggle to come to terms
with their use.
I have kept the accounts of each publication largely chronological, referring to stories in
the order in which they appear in the comics, except for instances of direct comparison.
This is to facilitate an overall view of the artists' developments in skill, and changes in
intentions.
I will be referring to the artists by the names they have chosen to work under. Where
known, their names will initially appear in parentheses after the pseudonym.
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