Comfort Arthur
Comfort Arthur is a British-born Ghanaian animator, graphic designer, visual artist and editor. She founded The Comfy Studio, a multimedia studio in Ghana. Born in the United Kingdom, she studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins and earned a master's degree in animation from the Royal College of Art. While at the RCA she won early awards for motion graphics and animation.
After graduation she spent seven years working in a supermarket. In December 2012 she moved to Ghana as a film editor with help from her sister, joined Sparrow Productions for three years, and began freelancing in 2015 to pursue personal projects.
Her short The Peculiar Life of a Spider earned nominations at the Ghana Movie Awards and the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2015. In 2016 she founded The Comfy Studio and released several acclaimed shorts. The short Imagine (2015) won Best Animation at the Golden Movie Awards in 2016. Black Barbie (2016) screened at more than 40 international film festivals, won Best Spoken Piece at the Real Times Film Festival in 2016, and earned nominations at Annecy International Animated Film Festival (Best Short) and Queens World Film Festival (Best Animation and Best Narrative Short). Comfort Arthur also won Best Female Director at the Black Star International Film Festival for Black Barbie.
In 2018 her installation Naughty Nii was the first runner-up at the Kuenyehia Ghana Contemporary Art Prize. In 2019 she released the comedy web-series I’m Living in Ghana, Get Me Out Of Here. In 2020 she worked with the Ladima Foundation to run an animation program for young women in Nigeria.
Black Barbie also became a book. It tells Comfort Arthur’s journey with beauty standards and bleaching, and calls for avoiding harmful bleaching products.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 04:46 (CET).