Satire Digest - Digest Satire #3
Hi, cartoon lover!
It’s that time of the year, when migrants try to come to Europe to find a better life, and the sinking of yet another of the boats they cross the Mediterranean with gets less coverage than the new LP of Richard Wagner - famous composer, especially loved by Vladimir Putin, I’m told.
Here are 2 of the 10-or-so cartoons I produced this month, and some news and resources, at the bottom. The rest, you can find scattered around social media, where you can find me typing @emadelrosso (on Twitter and Instagram).
It’s difficult music…
Wagner is not for everyone, and especially not for Vladimir Putin.
The cold shoulder
Yet another migrants shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.
The News Corner: Panel at the ZEG Festival
I had the pleasure and the privilege of sharing the stage with Gian-Paolo Accardo, editor-in-chief of Voxeurop, at the ZEG Storytelling Festival in Tbilisi.
We were on that stage - I’m glad you asked - for a panel titled The power of editorial cartoons: Lines that leave a mark. We talked and talked, and talked, and at some point, someone asked a question to try and stop us. Many did ask questions, because the trick worked, and so we managed to have an interesting conversation on the topic, instead of ranting like I’m doing now - us, quasi-middle-aged white mansplainers.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a recording of the session, but I do have some links I can share with you! Here below you’ll find some interesting historical information on editorial cartoons and their development, both in Europe and in the US.
So, if you will, keep reading:
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/royal-image-goes-pear-shaped
https://www.myddoa.com/the-brains-by-thomas-nast/
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2960