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  • Krieg Zeichnen – Dessiner la Guerre – Drawing War (Ausstellung / Exhibition)

    Die Städtische Galerie Albstadt zeigt in ihrer Ausstellung „Krieg zeichnen. Dessiner la Guerre – Drawing War – Oorlog getekend – zwischen Reportage und Graphic Novel“ noch bis zum 19. April begleitend zu einer Präsentation von Arbeiten von Otto Dix eine Reihe von Entdeckungen, darunter grafische und malerische Dokumentationen des 1. Weltkriegs von Heinrich Heider, Gus […]

  • Reportage and Documentary Drawing Award (Reportage Drawing)

    Reportager  in partnership with moleskine announces a call for submissions for the Reportager award 2015. The award is intended to encourage new, existing and emerging talent and projects in the area of reportage and documentary drawing. Reportager Professional Prize: The winning entry will be awarded £600. In addition to this moleskine reserve the right to […]

  • Abdul Jossot trifft Charlie Hebdo und die FAZ haut daneben / T-error of Religions, by Frantisek Kupka, 1904 (Update February)

    Feature:  “Grandioser Biß” oder “Verdammter Schlag in die Fresse”? –  Abdul Jossot trifft Charlie Hebdo … und die FAZ haut daneben. Das Charlie Hebdo-Massaker hat etliche Kommentatoren der internationalen Feuilletons in die Bredouille gebracht. Wie sollte man auf die Schnelle dieses offenbar speziell französische Phänomen eines auf äußerte Konfrontation gerichteten politischen Cartooning erklären, zu deren […]

  • Der Illustrations – Impuls # 2 (Conference)

    Der zweite TeiI der Tagung zu Aktualität, Geschichte und Praxis der Illustrationskunst versammelt Vorträge von Mr. Bingo (London), Nils Büttner (ABK Stuttgart), Marion Deuchars (London), Alexander Roob (ABK Stuttgart), Patrick Thomas (ABK Stuttgart), Pierre Thomé (Hochschule Luzern) sowie ein Trickfilmprogamm, das von Ulrich Wegenast (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg) kuratiert und eingeleitet wird. Dienstag, 17.02.2015 Beginn 11:00  (bis […]

  • Glenn Greenwald´s Plea for Equal Right to Blasphemy (Dangerous Drawings)

    Glenn Greenwald has piped up in the light of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre. The lawyer and journalist, who became famous for his crucial role in the global surveillance disclosures, wrote a furious plea for an unrestricted freedom of press in his online magazine The Intercept. In his well worth readable contribution he accuses the Western […]

  • Pack Dich, Franziskus! (Dangerous Drawings)

    Manila – Papst Franziskus hält nicht viel von Meinungsfreiheit, wenn jemand die religiösen Gefühle anderer verletzt. “Viele Menschen ziehen über Religion her, das kann passieren, hat aber Grenzen”, sagte der Pontifex auf dem Weg in die philippinische Hauptstadt Manila mit Blick auf die Terroranschläge auf das Satiremagazin “Charlie Hebdo”. Jede Religion habe eine Würde, über […]

  • Frantisek Kupka: The T-error of Religions, 1904 (New Pictorial)

    At the beginning of the 20th century, the Paris-based Czech artist Frantisek Kupka published some furious pictorial attacks against a prevailing mixture of unrestrained greed for profit, of militarism and imperialism; an explosive, which was mostly religious legitimized. His commented cycle “Religions” appeared in 1904 in the magazine “Assiette au beurre”. Zu Beginn des 20. […]

  • “They drew first” – Graphic Comments on the Charlie Hebdo Massacre (Dangerous Drawings)

    Charb in Charlie Hebdo, 7.1.2015 “The Power of Cartoons” by Tjeerd Royaards (Source: Cartoon Movement) David Pope: He drew first, 8.1.2015  (Source: Hellou.co.uk ) Steve Bell on the Charlie Hebdo attack  (Source: The Guardian) Banksy, 8.1.2015 ( source: Meedia)

  • The interventionist art of Mihály Biró / Masters of Faits Divers-Painting VI: Conflicts and Flames (Update January )

    Feature: The interventionist art of Mihály Biró  Mihály Biró´s graphic cycle „Horthy“ (1920) has lost none of its explosive nature, quite the contrary. The eponymous Regent Miklós Horthy, who was internationally made responsible for the White Terror and the anti-Semitic pogroms in Hungary is currently vindicated by the ruling party of Viktor Orbán Feature: Die […]

  • Comic Journalism. An exhibition in Amsterdam (Ausstellung / Exhibition)

    Comic reporting flourishes. Illustrators are increasingly commissioned by newspapers, magazines or NGOs to areas of conflict or to other places of special interest. This kind of journalism is slow, but has depth and is reflectiv because the rather long processing time prevents their authors from drawing hasty conclusions. The exhibition by Joost Pollmann gives an […]