Anecdote: I lived in Ibadan, Nigeria around 1970 or so. I recall the newspapers had serials, some were comics they bought from England, e.g. Garth, and some we

Anecdote: I lived in Ibadan, Nigeria around 1970 or so. I recall the newspapers had serials, some were comics they bought from England, e.g. Garth, and some were a kind of photobook thing where models would stage scenes from a story and captions would be added just like a comic. There would also be extremely crude effects drawn in by hand. I remember that one such serial involved were-leopards, and it made sense to me that while Europeans had stories about humans who transformed into wolves, Africans would have stories about humans that transformed into big cats.