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Zenica School of Comics: Art and Education for ChildrenCEFR A1
28 Sept 2025
Adapted from Balkan Diskurs, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
Photo by Miguel Alcântara, Unsplash
Level A1 – BeginnerCEFR A1
2 min
71 words
- Zenica is a city with about 100,000 people.
- The School of Comics is in Zenica.
- The school is more than thirty years old.
- It began during the 1992-95 war.
- Adnadin Jašarević started the school.
- He is the director of the city museum.
- The school trained about two hundred artists.
- About seventy became well known authors.
- Tablets make drawing easier for many artists.
- Festivals and web comics help the scene survive.
Difficult words
- school — A place where students learn.
- comic — A story with pictures and words.comics
- help — To make someone better or easier.helps
- learn — To gain knowledge or skills.
- student — A person who studies.students
- war — A fight between groups.
- hunger — The need for food.
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Discussion questions
- Why is learning to make comics important?
- How can art help people during tough times?
- What would you like to learn if you were a student there?
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