Comic strip books are a very versatile medium in development campaigns, because they combine visual story telling with text in a way that is appealing to most people. When special care is taken to use comics in an intelligent and well-planned way, the medium becomes a strong tool for the presentation of ideas and issues. A comic strip about an issue that is relevant to the target group will be very popular and widely read, especially where the literacy rate is low and where people have very few, if any, books.

'Stepping Stones' is a richly illustrated training package on gender, HIV, communication and relationship skills. It is now in use in over 30 countries in Asia and Africa. By Alice Welbourn, Strategies for Hope, published by ActionAid, 1995.

The TB booklet I designed for the Ministry of Health in Botswana was given to all TB patients to remind them to take their tablets after the initial injections. In addition it was also used in nursery schools as a colouring in book, as a reader in primary schools (it was published in Setswana and English) and it was used for teaching Setswana to foreigners. It has also been adapted in Tanzania.

Cover design for 'Choices', written by Gill Gordon and published by Macmillan. A guide on sexuality for young people in Africa.

Page from 'Form a health and safety committee', published by Ministry of Health, Botswana

Illustration from 'Talking AIDS', published by Macmillan

A page from 'Miners at Work', a miners' guide to health and safety regulations, published by the Ministry of Health, Botswana

Cover design for the 'Literacy Promoter's Handbook'. Published by SWAPO. A comic strip book to teach the Paolo Freire method of adult literacy.

A cartoon for the 'Catholic Organisation for Overseas Development '(CAFOD)

Illustration for the Cambodia version of 'Stepping Stones'