This is the latest installment in Ethan Heitner's Freedom Funnies series for Mondoweiss. You can see the entire Freedom Funnies series here.
(Click on the first image below to view it larger, and then click in the upper right hand corner to scroll to the next page.)
I’d like to see R Crumb take up with Ms Sansour–where’s he hiding these days?
Robert Crumb, along with his wife Aline (The Bunch) Kominsky, lives in the south of France. They just returned from a comics convention in India. In May, they’ll attend another conference in Chicago. You can subscribe to their newsletter at link to crumbproducts.com.
These are powerful illustrations, Ethan…on par with Joe Sacco’s “Palestine” or Art Spiegelman’s “Maus.”
link to en.wikipedia.org
link to news.harvard.edu
a mutually extended olive branch is about as sexy as it gets
!!!! love the graphic on that one. ok, working my way down, i just had to say that.
i highly recommend people open the link: “Swiss museum cancels competition after prize-sponsor Lacoste rejects Palestinian artist”: link to mondoweiss.net
this is startling art. Larissa Sansour is a mindblowing artist. you have to see it to believe it. …ok, back to the comic! love this!
For those of us in the UK, Larissa Sansour’s work is on show at this exhibition in Manchester:
link to guardian.co.uk
Not much more than 70 miles from me, I’m going to try and get there to see it.
It includes the tower block!
okay i had to come back once i finished. thank you thank you thank you ethan! just excellent. i’m falling in love with this medium.
and i learned about another artist today, oreet ashery.
Like Annie, I love this medium. Ethan and Larissa do a beautiful and brilliant job expressing complex positions with few words and amazing illustrations. I have always been in awe of cartoonists. Even if I had an ounce of artistic talent, which I don’t, I could never be so inventive as to capture such essential truths in this compact package. This is powerful stuff.