Mike Peterson in The Daily Cartoonist.
Censorship in America: A dialogue in words and pictures by the ex-cartoonists of the New York Times and Washington Post” is a conversation between Patrick Chappatte and Ann Telnaes published by a French publishing house in a large (9″x11″, 224 pages), gorgeous book that shows how much more seriously cartooning is regarded there than it is here.
It’s also tout en francais, but... it is at least three-quarters made up of full-page and double-truck color cartoons, and while Chappatte’s have French dialogue, it’s sparse and easily understood.
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Both cartoonists — who are on this new list of most-influential— have global standing in the fight for free expression.
And well after they were established in that effort, Telnaes quit over being censored, and Chappatte lost his NYTimes gig over someone else’s cartoon.
They’ve each got a lot to say about censorship.
They’ve each got a lot to say about censorship.
When Chappatte quoted Steven Colbert as calling the CBS payment to Trump “un gros pot-du-vin bien gras,” it wasn’t an idiom I recognized, but I knew the quote, which was “a big fat bribe.”
Similarly, I didn’t need to know the last word when political cartoonists were referred to as “canari dans la mine de charbon.”
Nor was it hard to figure out their references to self-censorship and obediance in advance, which are common and toxic results of governmental and management pressure.
Nor was it hard to figure out their references to self-censorship and obediance in advance, which are common and toxic results of governmental and management pressure.
Censure en Amérique
Les Arènes
Les Arènes
Patrik Chappatte, Ann Telnaes
24.90€ISBN: 979-10-375-1519-3
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