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?
These are powerful illustrations, Ethan…on par with Joe Sacco’s “Palestine” or Art Spiegelman’s “Maus.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_%28comics%29
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/12.13/19-spiegelman.html
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”: https://mondoweiss.mystagingwebsite.com/2011/12/french-museum-cancels-prize-rather-than-accept-lacostes-banning-of-palestinian-artist.html
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!
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.