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Madam & Eve

MADAM & EVE is South Africa's most popular and successful strip. Appearing daily in 13 publications across the country while also reaching out to online expatriates in every corner of…>

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  1. MEET SOLLY AND HIS TROLLEY

    INTRODUCING MADAM & EVE’S NEW WALK ON
    Meet Solly
    South Africa’s most popular newspaper comic has a new character.

    This past week, Solly walked into Madam & Eve’s strip - and neighbourhood - opening up a whole world of prospects for stories and gags.

    Solly is immediately set upon by Mother Anderson, who has taken it upon herself to defend the neighbourhood against the likes of him and the lady who walks the streets selling mielies (corn) at the top of her voice. In fact, it soon turns out that these two scourges of middle class privilege already know one another!

    Solly’s trolly, filled to the brim with odds and ends (some of which will surprise you), is a prop that will surely prove to be a bottomless resource of material for the strip’s creators Stephen Francis (who writes), and Rico (who draws).

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    Posted on Mar 17, 2013

  2. 20 YEARS OF MADAM & EVE

    Madam & Eve's 1996 Annual Cover

    TWENTY YEARS ago South Africa's favourite comic strip made its first appearance in the Weekly Mail.

    Its purpose was to record the absurdities of a community huddled together on the Southern tip of Africa as it grappled with the most dramatic social change it had ever known.

    Apartheid was being dismantled around it, and the community's members faced new hope and new challenges.

    Enter Madam and Eve, a conscientious middle class woman and her wily maid servant; as good a representation of the country's 40 million populace as you'll ever get to fit within the confines of a comic strip frame.

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    Posted on Dec 11, 2012

  3. Brett Murray talks at Africartoons Exhibit of Spear cartoons

    Photo by Gavin Thomson
    Fine artist and satirist Brett Murray, the painter of the controversial portrait of President Zuma titled The Spear, was a special guest of africartoons at the exhibition of Spear Cartoons we curated as part of the co/MIX Day at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town last weekend.

    Also at the event were africartoonists Brandan, Chip, Deni Brown, Gavin Thomson, Stent and Zapiro, whose work was on display at the exhibition and as part of africartoons' slide presentation of Julius Malema cartoons.

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    Posted on Sep 30, 2012

  4. Cartoonists stand against media restrictions

    BY JOHN CURTIS


    South Africa’s top editorial cartoonists have banded together to protest against the government’s intended press restrictions.

    In rejecting the proposed Protection of Information Bill and Media Tribunal, they have warned that these restrictions will erode the right to freedom of expression achieved by the country’s hard fought struggle for democracy.

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    Posted on Aug 12, 2010

  5. Madam & Eve come to Cape Town!

    And Africartoons was at their booklaunch...

    Madam & Eve Characters

    MADAM & EVE creators Stephen Francis & Rico were in Cape Town on September 24th for the Open Book Festival to promote their new annual 'The Pothole at the End of the Rainbow'.

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    Posted on Sep 25, 2011

  6. DON'T BURST OUR SPEECH BUBBLE!

    PLEASE sign our petition for free speech for SA cartoonists

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    Posted on Sep 01, 2010

  7. Cartoon Events at the Cape Town Book Fair

    This year's fifth anniversary of the Cape Town Book Fair has some exciting events on offer for cartoon enthusiasts. The fair will be held once again at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, from Saturday 31st July through to Monday 2nd August. Friday, July 30th has been set aside for the trade. 

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    Posted on Jul 31, 2010

  8. Cartoonists Get Behind the Soccer

    Corrupt politicians, dodgy business persons and lazy public servants will all benefit from at least a partial reprieve from local cartoonists who have shifted their focus towards the Soccer World Cup, and joined the rest of South Africa in a mood of patriotic goodwill.

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    Posted on Jun 11, 2010

  9. WHO LET THE DOG OUT?

    The guys behind Madam & Eve chase new markets

    Stephen Francis & Rico Schacherl, creators of “Madam & Eve” have launched a new cartoon strip, aimed at the international market.

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    Posted on Jun 07, 2010

  10. Book Launch. You're invited...

    To the Stellenbosch launch of 'Don't Joke!' The Year in Cartoons on Thurs, 15th April, 2010, 17h30 for 16h00 at the  Visual Arts Department, Victoria St, University of Stellenbosch.

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    Posted on Apr 09, 2010