#political cartoons
Hand-drawn (primarily) black & white image of two female-presenting, goth-punk rocker types.
The person on the left is is wearing a belt-buckle (in colour) that is the Red, Pink, & White Lesbian Pride Flag, and holding a sign that says, “Happy International Women’s’ Day to All My Sisters!!” The person on the right is wearing a round pin (in colour) in the Blue, Pink, and White of the Trans Pride Flag and holding a sign that says, “Not just my Cis-ters”.
Credit Art by Andi
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“During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the CIA committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and the killing of Manadel al-Jamadi.”
- Wikipedia
Respecting women is revolutionary
(This is, obviously, very condensed. Also, feudalism looked different in different European nations. Here, I’m focusing more on Britain. It wasn’t the first place to introduce modern capitalism but is a big part of the story.)
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KARACHI:
The fan stirs the breeze in a small room at the Human Rights Commission Pakistan. It’s the final day of World Comic’s grassroots workshop on tolerance, and 28 participants, aged 12 to 40, are busy with their display.
It’s a grand affair involving tape, scissors, posters and twine. The participants — students, teachers, graphic designers and office clerks — have spent three days illustrating personal stories and learning the basics of comic communication. Their comic-speak has grown increasingly sophisticated. English words like visual script, ‘foreground’ and ‘long-shot’ pepper Urdu conversations.
The room resounds with laughter and chatter, blending into the din of Khadda market. Students snap pictures with their phones and discuss the nuances of specific comics. Despite the fact that a variety of religions, geographies, ethnicities and economic classes are represented here, there is palpable camaraderie.
“We encourage them to write their own stories in their own language,” said Nida Shams, a full-time volunteer for World Comics Network Shams. “We taught the process of writing, drawing and inking, so now they have what we call comic wall posters.”
Participants are encouraged to post on bus stops, electric poles and university campuses as a means of owning their public sphere. The posters explore issues such as religious and ethnic discrimination, religious hypocrisy, street violence, political and media criticism and Pakistan/India relations.
This week on AlHudood شبكة الحدود: you’re never too young… to be detained by Israeli authorities. #AhedTamimi
Title: Premeditated
Panel 1: “You are accused of urinating on an Israeli soldier, an offense punishable with a prison sentence of 5 years. Do you have anything to say in your defense?”
Panel 2: “He did it again!”
Panel 3: “10 years!”
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For a more detailed accounting, the Guardian recently covered this topic, Revealed: top US corporations raising prices on Americans even as profits surge
Two notable factors involved here are 1) consolidation among corporations, which leads to 2) concentration of control over supply chains, (which involves things like eliminating “low cost” consumer goods options and artificially restricting supply to inflate prices, etc.)
From the article:
“One widely accepted narrative holds that companies and consumers are sharing in inflationary pain, but a Guardian analysis of top corporations’ financials and earnings calls reveals most are enjoying profit increases even as they pass on costs to customers, many of whom are struggling to afford gas, food, clothing, housing and other basics.
The analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission filings for 100 US corporations found net profits up by a median of 49%, and in one case by as much as 111,000%. Those increases came as companies saddled customers with higher prices and all but ten executed massive stock buyback programs or bumped dividends to enrich investors.
In earnings calls, executives detailed how even as demand and profits rose post-vaccine, they passed on most or all inflationary costs to customers via price increases, and some took the opportunity to add more on top. Margins – the share of sales converted into profits – also improved for the majority of the companies analyzed by the Guardian.
Economists who reviewed the data say it’s more evidence of a clear reality: Consumers are taking a financial hit as companies and shareholders profit or are largely shielded.“
It’s obvious that corporations are trying to pass on any form of short-term pain they might be feeling … and that’s serving the top, wealthiest class instead of those in need of fair wages or products that are affordable,” said Krista Brown, a policy analyst with the American Economic Liberties Project.”
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“The Guardian’s data….objectively shows a massive “transfer of wealth” from consumers, who pay higher prices, to shareholders and investment firms that reap the benefits.”
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Stay safe at the Virginia Rally today
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op this is good commentary but I’m mostly just captivated by how you drew the kid as a teeny little grub with a propeller hat
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(Cartoons courtesy of Zapiro.com)
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that the country’s president, Jacob Zuma, violated the constitution by failing to repay some of the millions of dollars in government money he used to “upgrade” his private home near Nkandla, his home town in Kwa Zulu Natal.
Zuma said additions like a swimming pool, an amphitheater, a visitors’ center and chicken run were security improvements. A Zuma-commissioned report to justify the questionable upgrades called the new pool a fire-fighting precaution.
It’s a scandal that’s been slowly rolling out since 2012, and South Africa’s best-known political political cartoonist — Zapiro — has been there every step of the way.
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Cartoonists from around the world respond to the Brussels attack. See more.
Credits from top to bottom: PLANTU, Taner Özek,Luc Descheemaeker,Jerm
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Khalid Albaih (@khartoon) just finished a road trip across the US. He took the trip because he wanted to visit places that played a key role in the civil rights movement.
And at the end of the day, he wanted to explore how American civil rights heroes could provide models for change back home.
Albeh is a satirist who uses cartoons to fight for civil rights and human rights across the Arab and Muslim world. He hoped the trip would lift his spirits.
His cartoons rarely have captions. In many ways, he’s trying to convey what he can’t — or isn’t allowed to say with words.
During his road trip, he visited Freedom Rider stops, and the place where Stokely Carmichael broke ranks and made a speech about black power. But the site that meant the most was the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in New York City.
Growing up black, African and Muslim, he says Malcolm X was a hero to him.
“We don’t really have heroes in the Arab world right now,” he says. “We don’t have that character that young people can look up to. Our heroes have only been religious heroes, which are holy figures that never make a mistake.”
EPISODE 3 - PRINT CULTURE GETS GOING
In today’s video we examine the birth of print culture. That means starting with Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press! There are a million videos of replicas of the Gutenberg press (we don’t actually have the plans of the original, so we don’t know exactly what it looked like!), but some of the best (imho) are here,here, and…if you have some time…here.
One of my biggest sources for this piece was David Kunzle’s The Early Comic Strip. It’s out of print and a bit difficult to get a hold of–but see if your library can get it for you. It’s full of fascinating stuff.
There’s a lot of information on the early British political cartoonists out there online. Here’s a nice introductory article. You can also browse the Library of Congress, which has a nice collection of these pieces.
One side story I didn’t tell was how caricature got a French cartoonist jailed.The magazine La Caricature was founded in 1830. The main author was a man names Charles Philipon, who was incredibly critical of King Louis-Philippe and frequently published illustrations making fun of the king. The most famous of these was an Honore Daumier piece based on one of Philipon’s own sketches that compared Louis-Philippe to a pear.
The pear became a broader symbol of the breakdown of the king’s government. Between 1831 and 1835, the offices of the journal were seized by the government over a dozen times and Philipon himself spent at least a year in jail.
A bit light this week, but after recovering from illness next week, we’re getting back to it! See you then!
