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Thread #88604   Message #1665124
Posted By: Donuel
09-Feb-06 - 07:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Cartoon riots around the world
Subject: RE: BS: Cartoon riots around the world
For what it is worth, I have done several cartoons of the holocaust.
In this one I sampled a photograph of the victims at Dachau and used them to represent Muslim dead... http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/bushfalluja.jpg


In another cartoon I changed a photo I made of night clouds illuminated by fire in DC to become the smoke from the Nazi concentration camp ovens. The smoke is the shape of a special letter in the Hebrew alphabet which has an additional meaning of 'why?'.

I turned Albrect Macht Frei iron gate into a US free speech zone.

I will not show the cartoon I made of the holocast dead piled high to create a podium for a current President due to the current climate and Iranian cartoon competition.

I have dedicated 10 years to say important things with pictures. For a cartoon to be great/timeless, I have tried to incorporate 3 things: suggest the mortality of men, the hypocrisy of men and a unique POV that makes a person think from a new perspective.

To be shocked that I have exploited the holocast dead in cartoons is to miss the point that only the living can speak for the dead. If we do so in a way that instructs more than it inflames I believe some good has been done. If I am wrong then I have wasted most of my life in speaking out against lost causes.