Togo
Impressions from Lomé

In the week from 27 June to 1 July 2022, a total of 16 participants successfully took part in the AFRICOMICS workshop in Lomé. The workshop was held at the Goethe-Institut Togo and led by the Togolese comic artists Deotanta Daona and Adrien Folly-Notsron alias KanAd, who was able to stand in for Michael Ross at short notice. 

The workshop facilitators 

© Deotana Daona Déo, whose real name is Deotanta Daona, was born in Lomé-Togo in 1986. His drawing fever began at the age of 4 under the guidance of his late elder brother. In 2009, he received his degree in philosophy and literature in Siou. He was known by his classmates as a good draughtsman, poet and acting artist. Three years later, he combined his talents to prove himself as a cartoonist at PIPO Magazine from 2012 to 2016. He won various fine art, illustration, comic, portrait, painting, caricature and graphic arts competitions. A self-taught artist, he is now more in demand as an instructor and leader of art workshops as he easily develops and passes on techniques in the various fields of fine arts. As a columnist on L'bala, a weekend cultural morning show on Togolese television TVT, he develops the art of recycling, crafting and decorating through his column Brico-Deco. In 2018, he published his first two books, "Mon cours de dessin" and "Tome 1 et 2". Today, he has his own art business and is a figure and decoration designer at Simulgames, a simulation game development facility. 
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© KanAd "KanAd" aka Folly-Notsron Kanyi Adrien Magloire is a Togolese comic artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He participated in several workshops to further his education in children's book illustration and comics. As a result, he published his first two children's books with Editions Harmattan in France in 2003. However, he is most productive in the world of comics: to date, he is the Togolese comic artist with the largest number of published comics. He is a regular at the major international book and comics fairs and festivals and has won several prizes and scholarships, such as the prize for best comic at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée de Ouagadougou (International Comics Festival). In 2014, he was awarded an artist residency in the French city of La Rochelle, sponsored by the Institut Français. In the same year, he received a creative scholarship from the Centre National du Livre in Paris. In September 2019, he flew to Sweden, where he spent four weeks drawing comics with Nordic artists during an artist residency in Malmö sponsored by the Swedish Comics Association. In April 2021, it was the turn of the Institut Français' Villa Ndar in Saint-Louis, Senegal, where he did a six-week artist residency. In May 2022, he settled in Arc-et-Senans in the south of France for a two-week residency during which he created a children's book. He is very versatile and an all-rounder, comfortable in any style of comic, but very specialised in comics for young readers and all ages.
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