SA favourite to tickle your funny bone

IT’S been a tough year on many fronts and just in time for a bit of light-heartedness comes the latest Madam & Eve annual.

Madam & Eve, regarded as one of South Africa’s favourite and longestrunning comic strips, takes a satirical look back at yet another rollercoaster year of Covid-19 lockdowns, Eskom load shedding, corrupt and inept politicians, Zondo Commission reports, Home Affairs queues, a burning Parliament and millions hidden in presidential farm furniture …

Flip through the pages and join the crazy but well-loved crew of Madam, Eve, Mother Anderson and Thandi, and their supporting characters, as they unveil the humorous side of daily life in South Africa.

As the authors say, it proves, once again, that laughter IS the best vaccine in these challenging times.

Written and drawn by Stephen Francis and Rico Schacherl, Madam & Eve has been tickling South Africa’s national funny bone since 1992.

Francis is the writing half of the Madam & Eve team. He was born in the US in 1949 and moved to South Africa in 1988.

In 1992, while witnessing the interesting and often strangely amusing dynamic between his South African mother-in-law and her domestic housekeeper, he conceptualised the Madam & Eve strip. Francis is also an award-winning script writer for television and film.

Rico Schacherl forms the other half of this creative team, as illustrator. Born in Austria in 1966, Rico has lived and worked in Johannesburg for most of his life. He produces illustrations and editorial cartoons for a wide range of other publications. |