(mbaskills.in) the power of cartoons

Patrick Chappatte

About Patrick Chappatte

Is a Lebanese-Swiss cartoonist who draws for the International New York Times

Worked as an illustrator for the New York Times and as cartoonist for Newsweek

Has worked in graphic journalism, or comics journalism, a genre of reporting using the techniques of graphic novels

CARTOONIS

DYING

Major Concern

Now, Artists are publishing cartoons on Online Channels to widen their reach

Garbage Bin : Online Only Comic Cyanide and Happiness

How Internet and Technology have changed our lifestyle? Depicted using cartoons

Cartoons are great tools of communication for :

BAD OR GOOD

“Sorry about the long

queue. There are thousand illegals trying

to get in…

Cartoons can cross boundariesCrossed-Pens, a dialogue in the sense of a lively exchange of views and of witty observations, reunited people from different sides in Ivory Coast, Lebanon and Kenya.

• In 2006 Ivory Coast was split in two: rebels opposed to the presidency  

• A workshop was organised involving Ivorian cartoonists, who often were divided

Pre Crossed-Pens Post Crossed-Pens

• The two volumes of "Where are we heading?", a satirical view of the crisis in Ivory Coast, containing the cartoons were produced 

Cartoons can help us to changed and to improve the world we live in a funny way

Drug Abuse Domestic AbuseGovernment Snooping

Climate Change Space Trash Freedom of speech

Cartoons for declaration of war

Cartoons for solidarity

Support for Charlie Hebdo

After Charlie Hebdo and constant pressure from extremists ,

Akram Raslan is a Syrian cartoonist who was arrested by Syrian security forces in 2012. No one has heard from him since, and he has very likely died from torture.

Cartoons can be used as weapons

The Nazi party used cartoons and caricatures as a main part of their propaganda regime and as an effective way to send out their message and spread their opinions across Germany.

Cartoons can be used for well-being

Climate change requires the world to share growth between nations and people

Cartoons for spreading HUMOUR

Takeaways

Cartoons put opinions on power and culture into art and commentary with the sharp points of their pens

Cartoons are a great means of communication, for bad and for good! One should try to focus on the positive aspects of cartoons, and try not to cross the

line Cartoons can help us to changed and to improve the world we live in a funny way Humour illuminates the opportunity to take a fresh look at old issues and opens a

window of understanding In the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most

unlikely people together

Credits

https://www.ted.com/talks/patrick_chappatte_the_power_of_cartoons?language=en

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-cartoon-is-a-deadly-weapon/Cartoons can help us to changed and to improve the world we live in a funny way

http://tedxpeachtree.com/illuminating-conflict-and-healing-the-power-of-cartoons/In the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together

http://www.ortwin-oberhauser.com/the-power-of-cartoons/ http://www.slideshare.net/jrschroyer/schroyer-ted-presentation?qid=f7fcfa47-1e7a-

4ef6-8fac-7c678aa4ed03&v=&b=&from_search=3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Chappatte

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