Carol Hills
Global Political Cartoons: January 15 – 21, 2011
Tunisians say they want a revolution, ‘well, you know, we all want to change the world’. What’s still not clear is what the Tunisians want to change into. HU Jintao? He’s the Chinese president WHO went TO Washington TO DO some diplomacy TO WOO NEW sources of MOO-lah. And Queensland underwater.
Political cartoons from South Africa
Jonathan Shapiro, known by his pen name, Zapiro, is the most widely recognized political cartoonist in South Africa. His cartoons challenge the leaders of this new democracy. The World’s Carol Hills reports on how Zapiro’s insistence on political accountability comes in part from where he started his career, as an anti-apartheid activist.
South African political cartoonist Zapiro
Jonathan Shapiro has been known as Zapiro since he was a teenager. South Africa’s best-known political cartoonist learned the power of visual expression in the 1980s as a propagandist for the anti-apartheid movement. Today, he’s regarded across South Africa’s diverse population as the moral compass of his country, trying to keep the still-developing democracy well, democratic.
Global Political Cartoons: December 31, 2010
We close out 2010 with “friends” (as opposed to friends), the Euro continues to dance in distress, and the skunk at the garden party that just won’t go away: Wikileaks.
Talking Travel: ‘Twas the weather nightmare before Christmas
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Imagine you’re in London and trying to get home to some other continent for the holidays. Suddenly there’s an unprecedented dump of snow, below zero temperatures (and we’re talking Fahrenheit!), and Heathrow grinds to a halt. Well, that’s what’s happened to thousands of passengers now stranded at the airport, in hotels, on some friend’s floor.Nigerian Cartoonist Tayo Fatunla
Here’s a concept: political cartoons about Africa….by an African political cartoonist. Nigerian Tayo Fatunla has been making visual comments — sometimes funny, sometimes quite somber — on the politics of his home country, Nigeria, and the rest of Africa, for decades. Tayo Fatunla joins The World’s Carol Hills in this narrated cartoon slideshow featuring a selection of the Nigerian cartoonist’s work from the past decade.
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Global Political Cartoons: November 27 – December 3, 2010
The Wikileaks effect on American diplomacy: from “How wonderful to see you again, Mr. leader-of-country-x!” to “You lying, stealing windbag. Who have you cheated since we last spoke?” Oh where oh where are you, Julian Assange? And, penguins and polar bears take their case once again to latest summit on climate change.
Global Political Cartoons: November 20 – 26, 2010
This week, look for how to avoid a TSA airport pat-down — or how to get one; no more luck for the Irish: the country agrees to an IMF bailout; and the Pope’s changed message on the use of condoms.
Global Political Cartoons: November 13 – 19, 2010
After nearly 20 years, the symbol of Burmese pro-democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, is finally let out of her house; the woes of the Euro zone continue, but wait, here comes a diversion: a royal engagement!!!!
Global Political Cartoons: November 6 – 12, 2010
Non-Indian cartoonists commenting on President Obama’s visit to India all use the same visual image: a snake charmer. The Indian political cartoonists use a wider canvas.
Global Political Cartoons: October 9 – 15, 2010
Chilean miners emerge out of the hole to a global welcome; China bristles at the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace prize winner: one of their imprisoned citizens, and the Tea Party boils.
Global Political Cartoons: October 16 – 22, 2010
The French are hardly retiring. They’re taking to the streets to keep the retirement age at 60. And ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’, come out of the closet, go back in the closet…the extremely muddy issue of repealing the ban on gays in the military.
Global Political Cartoons: October 2 – 8, 2010
Kim Jong Un, the ‘hair’ apparent, the Blue Danube turns red, and the Australian dollar inches in value toward the greenback, and adjusting to a terror alert in Europe.
Global Political Cartoons: September 23 – 30, 2010
Kim Jong Il annoints his youngest son to be next in line; the Arab-Israeli negotiations are unsettled by settlements; and a computer worm infects Iran.
Global Political Cartoons: September 11 – 17, 2010
There’s a lot of anger and hate in this week’s cartoons, against the Roma, Muslims, women, and government. But there’s also an act of contrition from an unlikely source.
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