EAN: 9780262543019

INFORMATION POLICY RED LINES - CHERIAN GEORGE...

A lively graphic narrative reports on censorship of political cartoons around the world 
featuring interviews with censored cartoonists from Pittsburgh to Beijing. Why do the powerful
feel so threatened by political cartoons? Cartoons don't tell secrets or move markets. Yet  as
Cherian George and Sonny Liew show us in Red Lines  cartoonists have been harassed  trolled 
sued  fired  jailed  attacked  and assassinated for their insolence. The robustness of
political cartooning--one of the most elemental forms of political speech--says something about
the health of democracy. In a lively graphic narrative--illustrated by Liew  himself a
prize-winning cartoonist--Red Lines crisscrosses the globe to feel the pulse of a vocation
under attack. A Syrian cartoonist insults the president and has his hands broken by goons. An
Indian cartoonist stands up to misogyny and receives rape threats. An Israeli artist finds his
antiracist works censored by social media algorithms. And the New York Times  caught in the
crossfire of the culture wars  decides to stop publishing editorial cartoons completely. Red
Lines studies thin-skinned tyrants  the invisible hand of market censorship  and demands in the
name of social justice to rein in the right to offend. It includes interviews with more than
sixty cartoonists and insights from art historians  legal scholars  and political
scientists--all presented in graphic form. This engaging account makes it clear that cartoon
censorship doesn't just matter to cartoonists and their fans. When the red lines are misapplied
all citizens are potential victims.

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