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Algerian cartoonist Slim: 'We have to protect human hands, not human rights'

('Ja\xc5\xa1a Pipan',) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:16:40 -0000

Few Algerians don’t know who Slim is. Not a lot of Europeans know him. Yet the 67-year-old cartoonist provides the sharpest view on the society of his time, of the 'Arab spring' in Tunisia and Egypt, but also on the society where no revolution took place: Algeria

Polish elections: Jaroslaw Kaczynski, hamster candidate

('Katharina Kloss',) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:34:15 -0000

A second Kaczynski mandate would be going back to the Middle Ages, warns Artur Kurasinski, owner of Polish new media agency Revolver Interactive. He brings politically incorrect 'hamsters' back to life on his 2005-launched website chomiks.com. The presidential elections take place on 20 June, after late incumbent Lech Kaczynski was killed in April

Zaher Rezai: dead after eight kilometres of illegal immigration

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:48:04 -0000

In December 2008, the 13-year-old died under the wheels of a lorry after trying to evade Italian immigration officials. A year on, artist Gianluca Constantini's cartoon strip tells the story

EU-Japan history via Karl Marx, the manga

('Helen Swain',) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:15:00 -0000

On 14 March 1883, the father of socialism died. In these times of economic crisis, sales of Capital are on the increase in Europe, and Karl Marx is also going to become a comic strip. The Tokyo publisher East Press is launching a series of 28 manga versions of important European and Japanese literature. Dostoyevsky is among the bestsellers, along with Dante, Kafka and Hitler’s Mein Kampf

Claudio Stassi and Giovanni Di Gregorio 'didn't want to show people being killed in Brancaccio'

('Rosh Mahtani',) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:45:05 -0000

The 2006 comic book has been already been translated into French and Spanish. Both the author and scriptwriter are based in Barcelona, having escaped Sicily because 'the mafia culture is gaining strength'

A decade of the euro - in cartoons

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:53:02 -0000

As the single currency celebrates ten years, cartoonists from Italy, Spain, Slovenia and France paint their visions of a euro which seems distant from its users

Animated Dreams in Tallinn: film articulates art and the market

('Matthew Pagett',) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:00:00 -0000

While the older generation of illustrators, working from former soviet studios, export their art thanks to public financing, the younger ones attempt to reconcile artistic creation and getting paid. The local festival kicked off on 19 November

Audio: comic strip expressions

('Helen Swain',) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:15:00 -0000

A punch sound like POW in English but ALA in Polish. Weekly idiom comparisons

Siné: ‘Satire has to be iconoclastic‘

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:27:25 -0000

Interview with the former caricaturist from French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, who founded his own newspaper after he was sacked for his anti-semitic tendencies

Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK

('Jens Wiesner',) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna

Marzena Sowa: 'in communist Poland I'd dream about getting a Barbie from Pewex'

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

At 28, the author of comic series 'Marzi' – about a little girl living in the Polish People’s Republic - on her own story as a Pole between France and Belgium

Swedish ice hotels and Norwegian culture capitals

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Plus carnival fever in Venice, cartoons in the south of France and Arab hip hop in Brussels - our guide to the month's best cultural titbits

Ho Che Anderson: I never actually said 'hey mom, this is my sex book'

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0000

The London-born Canadian graphic novelist, 38, is relaxed and frank as he discusses being chosen as the only black cartoonist to portray Martin Luther King, a series which took him ten long years to complete

Komikazen: European comics go independent

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0000

The third international festival of reality comics is underway. It's a new kind of neo-realism with innovative trends, small budgets and international celebrities

Enki Bilal: 'My cartoons evoke a past out of step with reality'

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:00:00 -0000

The Czech-Bosnian cartoonist, 55, weaves between cartoons, cinema and geopolitics, taking his readers on a trip into a futuristic universe where political commitment is key

'The Association': revolutionary publishing house

('Andrew Burgess',) — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Independent Parisian comic-book publisher The Association formed their own comic publishing house in 1991, celebrating their first bestseller with Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis' six years ago

When manga becomes European

('Sarah Gray',) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:00:00 -0000

There's a new breed of European-borns, brought up on bread and TV cartoons, who are taking on the famous Japanese comic-strip genre and making it their own

Marjane Satrapi: 'the Iraq war was about nothing but oil'

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0000

We spoke to the Iranian graphic novelist, 37, in January, after she shot to fame with her black-and-white comic book ‘Persepolis’. It's currently hitting movie screens in its animated French version

Hergé at 100: man without a quiff

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:00:00 -0000

May 22 marks the 100th birthday of Hergé, ‘father’ and creator of comic boy-hero Tintin. Events have been organised around the globe to celebrate a man who has been somewhat eclipsed by his creation