Ali Ferzat, a renowned political cartoonist whose drawings expressed Syrians' frustrated hopes for change was grabbed after he left his studio early Thursday and beaten by masked gunmen who broke his hands and dumped him on a road outside Damascus.
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"I’ve had an extraordinary run at Salon, and it has been a fantastic platform, which I have been privileged to share with many talented contributors over the years. But as Blinky notes in this week’s farewell cartoon, I’ve been there for about a million years in internet time."
"It’s an experiment for both of us, I think, but an exciting one. My cartoon will start running there next Monday. Over the next few months we’ll be adding others, and, I hope, building up a go-to destination for progressive cartoon commentary."
"Why are cartoonists in Africa assaulted, jailed, sacked, banned and even assassinated? And some even forced to flee into exile? Can cartooning be part of a democratization process?"
Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones show us his preliminary sketches and finish for his recent editorial cartoon "Shouting Match."
"I got this idea from all the phone calls I received today. My editor transferred five and I think one sounded unhappy. The rest were angry, screaming even. Editorial cartoonist Ed Stein wrote about editorial cartooning in a hyper-partisanship climate. Ed’s column contributed to this idea. In fact, I got “political dialog as a shouting match” from his column. Thanks, Ed."
"Cartoons as a medium, particularly political ones, occupy a curious, not quite respectable twilight place in the realm of journalism, often integral to the topography of a newspaper but also more than slightly semi-detached."
The rest of her piece is here.
"Quoting John Locke, Rall argues that 'the people have an obligation to revolt,' and that 'nothing will radicalize the American citizen more than being thrown out of their home by a bank.' Citing frustration with both parties, who he called 'in bed with the duopoly,' Rall also noted that 'the American left has been very peaceful since the early ’70s… and where has it gotten us?'"
