An initial comic strip was developed that could be used either in newspapers or via the Internet to help younger children access DRR messages. 52 episodes of the comic strip were completed and initially distributed on the edu4drr.org website, as well as through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Following these initial publications, there was interest in translation and use in Fiji, Indonesia, Iran and Turkey (the comic has also been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese on this site). But that was only the start of the comics journey around the world and in hard to reach place!
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Silly Timmy in German ! Not a great deal to say apart from to thank Thorsten Ulbich (Vielen Dank!) for his efforts. Here are ALL of them!! PowerPoint file with both English and German translations included at the bottom of the page, too!
As always, Artwork by John A Abbott of Jot Studios and stories and montages by Justin Sharpe from edu4drr.
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If you are interested in using the Silly Timmy Disaster Comic for your community, I am providing two PowerPoints withthe original version in English and blank versions with no text so that uyou can translate for your communities!
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Posted by Justin Sharpe on August 15, 2014 at 10:20am
Last week saw the introduction of the Silly Timmy Disaster Comic strip in German, now this week we have French with thanks to Maya Schaerer (a long time member of edu4drr.org) for the translation. I hope to be adding more as time goes on and as they become translated. Even then there is a process that I go through ensuring font sizes and fonts are consistent with the original English and the taking PowerPoint versions and creating jpegs for easy distribution
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