KABOOM! Of stereotypes and superheroes - African comics and comics of Africa Africa demonstrating how to “read” or

demonstrating how to “read” or “translate” press photographs – images that Brecht referred to as hieroglyphics in need of decoding

and 3-D simulations

Sanell Aggenbach photographed by Gerhardt Coetzee

brick clay and skateboard wheels

Wang Jinsong’s collages of the Chinese character used to mark condemned buildings

KABOOM! Of stereotypes and superheroes - African comics and comics of Africa Africa demonstrating how to “read” orFirst published in 2015 to accompany the exhibition, Kaboom! African comics in focus. Presents a range of African comics: superhero and underground comics as well as comics with propaganda content or an education focus. Contributions include: "My Nelson Mandela"by Anton Kannemeyer "African Superheroes South African and Nigerian superhero comics and Pan Africanism in the time of Black Panther"by Lisa Roulet and Raffaele Perniola "South African