Ph, EU cartoonists find humor despite violence, life risks, censorship
Ph, EU cartoonists find humor despite violence, life risks, censorship
Popular cartoonist Manix Abrera (Photo by M.Santiago/Manila Today)
MANILA – A drawing can cost you your job, or worse, your life.
For cartoonists in the Philippines, defying censorship by publishers means getting kicked out of work, while for those in Europe, being “censored” by outraged readers could mean a deadly attack such as the massacre in the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris early this year.
At the “Cartooning for Peace” forum held in the University of the Philippines, Diliman on May 8, local and foreign cartoonists discussed how they all put themselves at varying degrees of risk because they use art to express an opinion.
“Violence is no means of censorship,” said Bob Katzenelson, a freelancer and vice president of the Danish Cartoonists, as he decried the attacks against cartoonists. “At the end of the day, each cartoonist has his own limit. You ask yourself, are you willing to stick your head and have it chopped off?”
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