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“Magnificent bite” or “Damn punch in the face” ? ———- Abdul Jossot hits Charlie Hebdo …. and the FAZ misses.
Not translated: Das Charlie Hebdo-Massaker hat viele 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 Drastik sich die übrigen nationalen Karikaturschulen offenbar wie Messdiener zu einer Bande bekiffter Hells Angels verhalten? Wie Licht in […]
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Robert Crumb´s tribute to his martyred comrads (Dangerous Drawings)
“ Liberation called me and said, `Crumb, can you do a cartoon for us? About what you think about this, you know, you are a major cartoonist, and you live in France.´ So I thought about it. I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I’m doing the dishes, or whatever, I was thinking, […]
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“This struggle will not be won by arms” – A legacy of Charlie Hebdo (Dangerous Drawings)
In February 2006 “Charlie Hebdo” was among the few papers, which avowed “Je suis Jyllands-Posten” and courageously decided to reprint the excommunicated Muhammad cartoons of the Danish journal. A month later the cartoon magazine published the much disputed manifest of twelve noted writers against Islamism, among them Salman Rushdie and Philippe Val, the former chief […]
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The Charlie Hebdo Massacre: 12 dead at Paris offices of the legendary satirical magazine (Dangerous Drawings)
The caricaturists Stéphane Charbonnie aka Charb, Jean Cabut aka Cabu, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac aka Tignous are among those numberless victims of a rising Islamic totalitarism. The new theocratic fascism has struck the culture of enlightenment at its traditional artistic core. Chief editor Charb after the petrol bomb attack on November 2011 Georges Wolinski […]
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The cartoonist and the president. Ali Ferzat and Bashar al-Asad.
In August 2011, Ali Ferzat, the well-known Syrian cartoonist, was molested in Damascus. Returning home from work in the middle of the night, he was dragged from his car, beaten up and dumped along the airport road outside of town. His attackers especially targeted his head, eyes and hands. On YouTube one could see photographs […]
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Dangerous Drawings: Cartoons in the Arabian Revolution
21.3.2011 The Power of Image – International Conference on Caricatures in Egypt Caricatures as vehicles of political and social propaganda are the subject of an international conference organised in Egypt by Heidelberg University’s Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. It is organised by research project B1 “Satire”, supervised by Prof.D. Hans […]