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Books and the ballot box have a long and winding history.
In the month since the the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the significance of visual representation has been a topic of much discussion. Political cartoons have the potential to reinforce problematic stereotypes…
They think and work differently, cartoonists. Anyone who has spent any time in an editorial office will know that cartoonists dream and draw on their own, working to the rhythm of their thoughts – if they…
In 2009, communications scholars Esra Özcan, Ognyan Seizov and I wrote an academic paper on the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy and its aftermath. We concluded that “visuals have to be taken more seriously…
Cartoonists and satirists in “the West” are confronted with the risks of their expressive freedom today as a consequence of the assassinations at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. This is how illiberal authoritarians…
As late as 1976, in what must have been one of the last things he wrote, the poet and controversialist James McAuley asserted, in a foreword to a volume of cartoons by George Molnar entitled Moral Tales…
Cartoonists working in a liberal democracy have a licence to be satirical, comic and even outrageous because they are the modern day court jesters. Since 1996 we have been studying political cartoons appearing…
In the current vicious political climate, caricatures in our daily press have become more savage. Perhaps no politician has experienced this more in recent times than former prime minister Julia Gillard…
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Professor in Modern History, University of New England
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer: Director MSc Animation and VFX MDes Comics & Graphic Novels, University of Dundee
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Director of the Animation Academy, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor of English, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Politics, Policy and Global Affairs, Flinders University
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Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Design, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Comic Studies, University of Dundee
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Lecturer in Film Studies, Department of Liberal Arts, King's College London
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PhD Candidate, Griffith University
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Professor of Mass Communication, Media and Communication Science, Jacobs University Bremen
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Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
