Witnesses, graphic storytellers, activists: an interview with the KADAK collective

ABSTRACT

In this interview, several members of the South Asian womxn’s graphic storytelling collective, KADAK, discuss the group’s recent projects, their collaborative production processes, and the themes that are most central to their work. After a brief introduction, the discussion turns to the benefits and difficulties of self-publishing, working online and offline, and nationally and internationally, and the collective’s first book-length, crowd-funded project, The Bystander Anthology, which will be published in 2020.

KEYWORDS:

• Comics and zines
• graphic anthologies
• diversity in comics
• print and digital media
• comics collectives
• South Asia

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Notes

1. Throughout this interview, the terms ‘India’ and ‘South Asia’ are used more or less interchangeably, with the exception of some references to India’s specific national and political context.

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Dominic Davies

Dominic Davies is a Senior Lecturer in English at City, University of London. He is the co-editor of Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage (2020) and the author of Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (2019), along with other books, articles and chapters.