CSotD: Viewed from a distance
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A collection, today, of things for you to click on rather than for me to comment on.
Start here: While we're fixated on drumming up faux controversies over candidate health and who lied over what, there are other things going on in the world, and this commentary on Brexit by Slovenian cartoonist Ciril Horjak is just one of a collection put together by the Danish magazine Politiken that not only features the cartoons but their creators' thoughts on them (yes, in English).
It's well worth the click, both for the quality of the work and as a reminder that the world has other concerns, though they certainly are watching to see who will head the world's largest nuclear and economic power.
And the Nib features a long-form comic by Eleri Harris and Ele Jenkins on an Australian scandal that has been going on far too long with far too little attention from overseas: The detention of refugees and illegal immigrants on islands off the nation's coast in conditions that so outraged observers that the government was forced to bar the media from visiting the internment camps.
The cartoon lays out the political issues and actually treads lightly on the horror stories of individual internees, but that information is around if you seek it out, and particularly thanks to one of the internees, a young Iranian cartoonist who goes by "Eaten Fish" and was recently given the 2016 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award by the Cartoonists Rights Network International.
He has been lauded by a variety of cartoonists in a display that includes this piece by Kate Moon, which I single out because it cites Eaten Fish as one of many refugees undergoing this treatment.
Finally – traveling through time rather than over distance – the King Features archivist offers a fun, fascinating look at knock-offs of popular newspaper cartoons at the dawn of the medium, when imitation was the most flattering form of intellectual theft, including this thinly disguised Little Nemo clone.
It's all in the "click for larger version" format (better than here) and the notes fill in the context nicely.
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