Nigar Nazar, Pakistan's first cartoonist, explores domestic and social issues with her cartoons and comics. Nigar Nazar is a shining star in a world of comics and animated women comics in Pakistan.
She is a talented artist and runs an art studio, Gogi Studios, based on her most popular character, Gogi. In her early days she experimented with comics and animation and now offers workshops on the topic of live comics in educational settings.
In Nazar's work, special emphasis was placed on issues such as women's rights, domestic and domestic violence, the environment, the fight against corruption and religious tolerance. Her comics cover a range of topics from extremism to girls' education.
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She uses her art as a platform to educate and raise awareness about the grassroots in Pakistan. Her cartoon character Gogi is a short, blotchy, bubbly girl who breaks all the cliches about how women should behave in private and in public.
It gained massive appeal and popularity when it was founded as women pushed themselves off talking about, let alone writing or drawing about, women's issues. The idea of cartoons and comics is to depict the most complex subjects in the most simple way.
Gogi was a great influence in discussing many different topics and reaching out to a large number of people. Nazar's audience ranges from older women to children as she has also worked on many children's books Even though my kids always tell me comics should be entertainment.
I tell them I would like to do this from time to time, but see, there are always things to comment on. "
