For this #SAComicsSunday I'm going to do a quick post about an event that happened today - Comic Jam Cape Town, which took place at Obz Books in Observatory.

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The cover of The Perilous World Of Toxic Fungi zine, which is just the text of the title written in pen. Photograph: Mandy J Watson

Here's a bonus zine from our workshop for #SAComicsSunday, #IZM2025, and #InternationalZine Month: The Perilous World Of Toxic Fungi by Lemonzestt (Naadirah Moola).

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The cover of the zine Seed Pod Selections. It is black text with no images and says: SEED POD SELECTIONS A studio inventory CATRIONA TOWRISS Photograph: Mandy J Watson

Since it is #InternationalZineMonth / #IZM2025, today's #SAComicsSunday showcase is another zine from the workshop we ran last month.

It's Seed Pod Selections: A Studio Inventory by Catriona A. Towriss.

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A photograph showing the cover of A Family Portrait, by Lindelwa Cele. It is a ballpoint pen drawing of the outlines of the heads and shoulders of a group of people, surrounded by loose rectangular shapes meant to evoke the sense of a photo frame. Photograph: Mandy J Watson

It's #IZM2025 (International ZIne Month) and also #SAComicsSunday so here's another zine from the workshop I co-facilitated in June: A Family Portrait by Lindelwa Cele.

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And of course I mistyped the hashtag in the first post and it should be #SAComicsSunday.

The cover of Your Dad's House (Prototype 1). The cover has an illustration of a key, on top of which are the words "YOUR DAD'S HOUSE". Above the illustration it says "draw in me" and "write in me". Below the illustration it says "prototype 1" (which is underlined) and a GAMEBOOK by WILLIAM B. Photograph: Mandy J Watson

Your Dad's House (Prototype 1) is a gamebook zine that William Bishop (WillowWaffle in some online spaces) made during the @openbookfestival.bsky.social Workshop Week's zine workshop co-facilitated by myself and @milo-wildcat.bsky.social earlier this month.

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The cover of the comic features a high school girl named Thandi who is holding a crystal. Bars of light are beaming out from the crystal to highlight five African scientist superheroes - Rocktor (Silindokuhle Mavuso), Morpho (Kimberleigh Tommy), Bones (Keneiloe Molopyane), GeoTime (Tebogo Makhubela), and Plant Detective (Aviwe Matiwane).

This week's #SAComicsSunday is a science themed educational comic: SuperScientists Dig In! by Justin Yarrow (story) and Clyde Beech (co-writing and art). It's part of the broader SuperScientists initiative, which aims to get young people excited about real-life African scientists.

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I am mentally bouncing around after today so I need a Zen evening but the zine workshop went so well! I am blown away by what everyone produced in such a short time and it was so much fun! Hopefully I'll be able to showcase a few things in some #SAComicsSunday posts.

Two zines: Fold Your Own Zine and Chess Rules. Fold Your Own Zine's black and white cover illustration is of a hand holding a small, closed zine with the words "Fold Your Own" on it and the words "Zine" next to it and "Babel Tower" lower down. Chess Rules' black and white cover says "Chess Rules" and "Babel Tower Basics". The background art is abstract geometric shapes and there are two lightning bolts zapping across the cover. Photograph: Mandy J Watson

Here are two zines by Claude Naudé - of the zine-creating collective Babel Tower - for #SAComicsSunday. Both were created for this year's Comic Con Cape Town x FanCon Cape Town Comic Con.

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The cover of Until There Was Nothing Left is a black and white illustration of a young person in white wearing feathered angel wings and looking a little mentally lost and alone in a black sketched void.

Today's #SAComicsSunday highlight is the 4-page black-and-white comic Until There Was Nothing Left by Noel Fox, who also goes by the username Hexed_Boy.

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Tyler Pike with a copy of his comic Skin Deep, which he debuted at Comic Con Cape Town x FanCon Cape Town Comic Con 2025. He is standing near his booth and grinning as he shows off his comic. Photograph: Mandy J Watson

Skin Deep is a surfing themed comic by Cape Town based cartoonist and comic creator Tyler Pike, who is a surfer and who comes from a surfing family. The comic debuted a few weeks ago at Comic Con Cape Town x FanCon Cape Town Comic Con 2025.

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This is a just a quick showcase for today's #SAComicsSunday of the #sacomics I found last weekend at Comic Con Cape Town x FanCon Cape Town Comic Con 2025 that were either brand new or were new to Cape Town. It doesn't include additional comics that have been available in previous years.

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There's no #SAComicsSunday from me this week because I'm taking a break but you can find all my previous posts via this link:

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You'll find comics, graphic novels, cartoon anthologies, zines, and web comics, all by South African comics creators.

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A quick #SAComicsSunday to end the year in which I'm going to highlight three ongoing longform #SAComics web comics that you can read online for free. (Great if you're looking for something to do during the holidays because, unlike us, you're stuck in the Northern Hemisphere and cold.) 1/8

The cover of Welcome Home Benjy: A Benjy And Friends Collection features the grey kitten Benjy in a box that says "Adopt Don't Shop" while his new family of Taffy, Lotty, Shady, and Quincy look on. Photograph: Mandy J Watson

#SAComicsSunday Welcome Home Benjy: A Benjy And Friends Collection by Samantha and Christopher Human is a full-colour compilation of the first 50 strips from the wholesome web comic Benjy And Friends. It was released this year at Comic Con Cape Town x FanCon Cape Town Comic Con.

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The cover features a collage of Avocat, Crate Cat, various aliens they encounter, and the new two-seater purple guacrocket, all in front of a large moon. This is the almost final cover: the final final cover has "Volume 1" written above the "T" of Guacrocket.

This week's #SAComicsSunday is an addendum to last week's #SAComics zines: it's Avocat And His Guacrocket Volume 1 by Tasmin Naidoo, which was, in fact, published in 2019 and launched at Fancon Cape Town Comic Con in April of that year. 1/

The two printed comics. Photograph: Mandy J Watson

#SAComicsSunday: This week it's two Instagram comics by Bedevilled/BDVLD (Tasmin Naidoo) that were then printed in full colour on thick cardboard and sold at FanCon Cape Town Comic Con in April 2017.

For lack of a more suitable category, I've classed them as zines.

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This week I had to deep dive into my archives for research to write an article on a crowdfunding campaign, which has now been postponed, for the South African comic Uncharted Waters, so I thought I'd look at one of the relevant comics for this week's #SAComicsSunday: The Souvenir.

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I saw this post a few days ago so I thought I'd pick this graphic novel for #SAComicsSunday: 'n Hart Is Net Atome (A Heart Is Just Atoms, ISBN: 9780639601632) by Cecilia Steyn (writing) and @milo-wildcat.bsky.social (art, but not lettering).

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The cover features a scene set in a classroom, in which young Thandi is leaning back in a very self-satisfied manner in her desk while her classmates feed their homework into a dog's bowl. The teacher is looking on in perturbed exasperation, while Eve, Gwen, and Gwen's mother Edith peek in on the right through the classroom door. The green that predominates the cover is very lime green bright on screen but in CMYK print it is a dull teal, slightly lighter than a blackboard green.

#SAComicsSunday Homework Of National Unity (ISBN: 9781431435425) by Stephen Francis and @ricoschacherl.bsky.social is the team's Madam & Eve compilation annual for 2024, featuring a year's worth of cartoons that have been published in various South African publications and platforms.
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The cover of The Cat Lady by Shameema Dharsey. The shapes of the letters of the word "Cat" are spelled out by cats lying in various poses.

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