Half World Four Frames

by Sharad Sharma (Editor)

Half World Four Frames is a comic book based on the issue of Gender. 130 comics from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka tell different stories of women in different social and culture situations. Comics from Pakistan present the position of women in matters like right to divorce, honour killings, impoverishment. Sri Lankan comics shows issues like exploitation at work place, domestic violence, gender discrimination. The book is not only a depiction of problems but also presents the cases where the women of the community took a forefront in dealing with water crises or demanding economic improvement in stone quarry. The book also has comics where the women took up cudgels to stop the distribution of illegal liquor or where the women fought against the goons who intimidated the women of the village.
These extra-ordinary stories of women are covered under six sections of the book titled as Aware, Empowered, Raising Questions, Realization, Strong and United.

These comics have been created in variations of dialects and languages. The comics have been supplemented with Hindi and English summaries.

162 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Indian cartoonist based in New Delhi, India. He was associated with many newspapers and magazines before he switched to electronic media and introduced political animation to Indian TV news channels. In the late 1990s, he formed the organisation World Comics India to introduce the idea of grassroots comics. The idea was to take this new communication medium to the masses. He took the art of cartooning and comics to the rural hinterland of India and other South Asian countries. He has extensive experience from workshops with a variety of organisations in India and internationally. His cartoon strip Developmentoon has been published in several newspapers and websites internationally. He has also published several books and manuals.

Since 2006 he has been helping small organisations working in remote areas to initiate social campaigns using grassroots comics on issues like infanticide, foeticide, corporal punishment and paedophilia.