Comics and creative industries : Skefkef experience

Beirut 26 March 2015

Who am I?

Mohamed 29 years old fromCasablanca, and doing what I love todo : being a digital communicationadvisor, cultural and social worker, Iown a startup that help brands andpeople to get in touch with theiraudience trough digital channels andculture.

Who’s who ? : Open Taqafa

Open Taqafa is a platform :

a platform that aims to promote : culture andtechnology, open source, and knowledge and freelicenses, micro culture, mixing and remixing betweendisciplines, we organize a lot of event and we managea lot of project I can mention :

Open Taqafa Days, Summerlab Casablanca, SkefkefFanzine, Cosmos fanzine, BPR, Glitch Noise Jams… etc

And we are involved in a big network of makers,permaculture, illustration, design … etc

Why ?

We struggle : Arab worlds, noresources, lost, no educations,nothing, problems, You know what Imean…

We are living in a country withoutresources but the best one is Youth :talented youth

The answer : Creative industries

What are Creative Industries?

“...those industries which have their origin inindividual creativity, skill and talent whichhave a potential for job and wealth creationthrough the generation and exploitation ofintellectual property”.

('Creative Industries Mapping Document', DCMS,2001)

How you can build creative industries ?

There is so many to build creativeindustries the best one is whenyou build it your self it can drivedrastic change on economy ingeneral here is our case study:skefkef

What is skefkef ? Fanzines ?

Is an independent Moroccan comicsFanzine the first issue was made in anartist residency hold by the open Taqafa.

The collaboration gather Moroccan comicsand digital painting artists and also bringartist from the Arab world.

The ideas comes after the first try of aMoroccan comics Sci-Fi called Cosmos.

The Story

One of the Open Taqafa days we have decided to

make the general theme about : auto-edition,

digital edition and then one of the activities was :

the artist residency of making a comics fanzine,

Salah meet, Mohammed Shennawy in Egypt and

they have Tok Tok a simulate something like what

we want to do so we did bring him to change

experiences and to have his expertise with us.

We made the issue number 1 it was a total success

so we have decided to do the 2 and the 3 and we

are now preparing the 4th

Topics

Freetlying/Casablanca Cyberspace/ Virtual Conspira

People

Illustrations

Creative industries and skefkef fanzine

So why the skefkef experience is relevantfor the creative industries :

If you go back a little bite and observe theblockbusters you will notice that too manyof them are based on comics.

This is why we started doing a comics bookand then we started to produce productrelated to comics with almost no budget :showing that is possible.

Unleash the creativity

Problems

Education

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Funding

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Miss understanding

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Etc

The solutions

Networking

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Promotion

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Education

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Education

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Education

Thank you