It is interesting to have Nigerian comic heroes by Nigerians for the world.But do Nigerians really like super heroes.is there even a market for Nigerian superheroes in the world?
Jide Martin is the founder of comicrepublic.com- a start-up that creates comics which are available online free.They are the creators of Guardian Prim, Hero Gen Avonome etc
In a recent interview with BBC, we learn more about his motivations, dreams and milestones achieved at comicrepublci.com.
On His Motivations
When I was young and I had tough decisions to make I would go what woulld superman do what would batman do?So I asked myself, why not give the generations unborn the same experience.
On Funding
I basically funded the whole operation myself.When we started, we were worried whether people would accept it. Surprisingly, people actually read a lot of comics here.A lot of people like super heroes.
On Growth
Our fanbase have been increasing steadily. When we checked in the first week of Januray, we had 38,000 downloads.
Watch the feature on BBC below
