Sumo the Bamboo man

Sumo the Bamboo man

Designer: Ola Bergner (Kankuran)

Description:

In 1997, when I went travelling in West Africa, I noticed the lack of African comic heroes. So I started inventing one. The result was a one page comic strip about Sumo the Bamboo man, a lonely man who dwells deep inside the Congo Basin in Central Africa. The word "Sumo"means ,lemonade, in Portuguese Creole, it just felt nice, also because he is quite the opposite of the Sumos in Japan. It took...