Web Comics

One of the most interesting projects we have worked on is a series of web comics for Premier Skills English. At the time, the Premier Skills project focussed on training grassroots community coaches. We wrote to the programme managers in the different countries that Premier Skills was working in and asked them about what problems their coaches had faced and what solutions they had come up with to overcome these problems. We created an 8 part beat sheet style template and adapted 12 of these problems and solutions to create basic story outlines. We commissioned graphic artists in Brazil and Indonesia to create illustrations for these stories. When we received the illustrations, we edited them into comics and rewrote dialogues and created language activities to support the comics. 

It was fascinating to see how the graphic artists from such different cultures interpreted the same basic stories.