Word: cartoonist
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...head, people have found a reassuring port in the storm: their belief in the political miracle of free speech. In Western democracies, the right to express an idea, no matter how offensive, always trumps the impulse of the offended to censor. No government should be able to jail a cartoonist or newspaper editor for what they publish, or block the distribution of provocative material in advance. That's what Europeans believe, and their laws allow. Right? Well, actually, no. In general, European law favors the right to say and publish unpopular, even hateful things. But not in every case...
...seen evangelical comics in the U.S. that make the minor blasphemy of the cartoon in Denmark seem like nothing. They ridicule the Prophet and all Muslim beliefs. But I defend the rights of the cartoonist. I think that if there's a free press, there's a right to commit blasphemy. If you cannot criticize or express an opinion about a religion in the modern era, we're in serious trouble...
...Finally exposing the work of a nearly forgotten master cartoonist, Walt & Skeezix reprints the first two years of Frank King's deeply American comic strip "Gasoline Alley" in the debut of what will (hopefully) be an annual reprint series for the next twenty years or so. Famous for characters who age in real time, like Walt, the dedicated bachelor and his adopted son Skeezix, the strip amounts to a daily diary of an American family as it goes through the depression, WWII, the post-war boom and beyond. This first volume features many car gags, but they soon give...
Playwright, singer, songwriter, cartoonist, Shel Silverstein was a jack-of-all-trades and the master of one--and the one was writing children's books. His freewheeling, provocative stories (The Giving Tree) and books of poetry (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic), illustrated with his quirky line drawings, have sold more than 25 million copies. Thus a new Silverstein title is a signal event, especially if it comes six years after his death...
...Chast: ''Mad About'' CD Covers Making a pointedly unself-serious attempt to attract new buyers, the classical-record label Deutsche Grammophon commissioned fey, funny cartoonist Chast to paint the covers for their Mad About series of reissues. The result: a charming new brand -- and a possible explanation of why CDs are exactly the size of cartoons...