Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories
Inspirations
A course by Takoua Ben Mohamed , Graphic Journalist and Author
Joined March 2022
Joined March 2022
About the video: Inspirations
Overview
“The sources of inspiration from which I inspire myself have been looking for them during my career and I am still looking for others today. Some authors, directors, activists or simply my family members have inspired me to combine art and journalism. In this lesson, I'm going to tell you about some of my role models. ”
In this video lesson Takoua Ben Mohamed addresses the topic: Inspirations, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories. Use the drawing to represent a true story, news, or event giving voice and face to its protagonists. .
Partial transcription of the video
“Inspirations In this lesson, I talk to you one of my main sources of inspiration. The first source of inspiration is Guy Delisle, who is a Canadian cartoonist and author. He, for example, started doing graphic journalism following his wife who works with Doctors Without Borders in various countries of the world. Originally, he followed his wife to mainly look after their daughter and while staying in these various countries used to go out and get to know the reality and everyday life of certain contexts and then tell them. Run away. Memoirs of a hostage. Mainly about him I really like his w...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Journalism: Use comics to tell real stories
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Category
Illustration, Writing -
Areas
Comic, Creative Writing, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration
Takoua Ben Mohamed
A course by Takoua Ben Mohamed
Takoua Ben Mohamed is an author and cartoonist of graphic journalism comics, specialized in animation cinema at the Nemo Academy of Digital Arts in Florence. She began to use her drawings to tell the story of her family members, political activists against the Tunisian dictatorship of Ben Ali who were later exiled to Italy.
Awarded numerous awards, including the Special Award for Best Graphic Journalism at European level (2019), she was defined as Woman of the Year by the magazine D - la Repubblica delle donne (2021). Among his most famous titles are Under the veil (ed. Becco Giallo) and My best friend is a fascist (Rizzoli).
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