Flex Mentallo

All the back covers looked baked to a crisp

Tremendous colors! I cant recall ever seeing this one before. I wonder if it is scarce.

That's a tough one!

Yes, the little sequence of covers between #4 and #9 are wonderfully conceived, each as good as the next, but all strikingly different. Lots of bang for my buck!

Nice pick up - someone really should take the other issues, they are very scarce.

Following the successful fundraiser, we've agreed that funding will be spread over four quarters, with the entire year's rent up front. There is sufficient to cover 18 scholarships, legal aid for abused women, picnics for the children, and community events. There is also a bit of reserve, just in case. [I have urged Shahina to look for a more secure base, and if she finds one and - more than likely - the rent increases, we'd still be able to cover the difference.] Shahina has promised to send me the bios of the remaining 6 scholars once she returns from a trip to New Delhi, where she is serving as a delegate at a political congress.More soon...

I stayed in the shallow end. (Dont even think it, Billy!)

"I married a comic!!"

looks darn near perfect.

Here is a bit of 'photoshop fun' showing the issues I have between #17 and #29 which are to me the heart of the title (though I could wish that #13 was consecutive with them). I've had multiple copies of these and the missing issues, just never all at once! Still holding out for the 'right' copies...

It is, isnt it? Apparently it was a house name (no surprise!), and one of the strip's writers was sci fi author Jerome Bixby, who later wrote scripts for the Twilight Zone and Star Trek(including Mirror Mirror, about a dark alternate universe that has remained a Trek trope to this day.) And the artist was the great Rudy Palais...

Smack dab in the middle of my favorite run of GGA covers! [#17-#29]

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PART THREE: PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR We have identified the following key goals for 2018/19: 1. To continue the Luke Holland Scholarship programme 2. To commence livelihood training for abused women 3. To establish a computer training center for our adolescent groups 4. To form a Child Protection Committee 5. To provide legal aid / mental support for victims of domestic violence. Every 2 months we’ll organize a training event for women on their human rights 6. To start a women's club in Rajabazaar Shahina Javed Founder Secretary March 2018

Also we had taken up the following activities this year: 1) Roshni conducted a workshop with adolescent girls on Reproductive Sexual Health Rights. 2) Roshni celebrated Rakhi Utsav. It is an Indian festival where a sister puts a bracelet on her brother’s wrist. It reinforces brother-sister bonding. However, our approach was to use this opportunity to unite our community together for good cause. Through this festival we broke the stereotype, asking boys to put the band on girls' wrists, and take an oath to protect humanity beyond the religion, sex ,cast, and community. 3) On 15th August we celebrated Independence Day; and on that day we organized a community event where our adolescent girls and boys performed dance drama, recitation, songs etc.

6. Awareness Programme & Other activities Currently, we have 150 participants who are divided into 6 clusters and in each cluster we have 25 adolescent girls and boys. Roshni's Core Team is comprised of 6 volunteers: Shama Parveen, Alisa Hussain , Alfisa Hussain, Mahzabeen Naaz, Farheen Naaz and Neha Khatoon. Every week they meet with our adolescent boys and girls and conduct a workshop on different issues and give mental support. We listen to their concerns and discuss them with the group. If need be, we help them by intervening. For example, Farheen Khatoon shared that her uncle continuously physically abused her and she did not know what to do about it. Roshni arranged to meet her mother and talk about the situation. Her mother informed us that after Farheen’s father’s death her family went to live with her uncle. This became a burden to him, so he would take out his anger on Farheen by beating her. Then we talked with her uncle and aunt and they gradually understood their mistake and started supporting her.

5. Film Making Four group members were given the opportunity to participate in a residential film making workshop organized by Thoughtshop Foundation. They made two documentary films, one about a footballer girl, another with a woman taxi driver. Roshni core group member Mahjabeen Naaz was invited to attend the Ankur Film Festival in Mumbai and showcase her film, which won the award for best cinematography.

4. Sports Programme In 2017, we organized a sports mela for the first time in our community. All the organizers in that programme were women. Moreover, in that mela all women participated in A football tournament from different districts of West Bengal. Many girls and boys from the community also participated in this mela, and because so many young people of both genders came together and interacted so positively, to us it was a very big achievement.