My cartoon “Man of God, Law of Men” has been selected among the best 100 cartoons of the Netherlands in 2019 and it will, therefore, run for the Inktspotprijs 2019, the prize awarded by Pers en Prent to the best cartoon of the year!
Category: Cartoons
“Ouch”
“Ouch”: A cartoon about a pretty hard Brexit.
“Holy Water”
“Holy Water”: A Cartoon About the Burning Amazon Forest
“Good Italians”
As most of you know, my country, Italy, has been sliding faster and faster down toward an ultra-nationalism pit that, for us Italians, is represented by our Interior Minister Salvini’s political party, Lega.
It is a grave that we dug with our own hands.
Some of us dug to join the deep trenches our left-wing intelligentsia built, time ago, to refuse acknowledging the existence of a population that doesn’t find well-educated, verbally-irreproachable cigar smokers attractive anymore; some others dug because everyone was digging – a very populist approach that many, tired of the same old stupid stories, took; some others dug because they wanted to make a hole big and deep enough we could bury in it any problem or tension we face: women rights, migrants, integration, economy, Europe, climate, etc.
In the end we didn’t want to see and we let him, Salvini, get to the point he can quote history, asking the Italian population to give him “full powers,” like the German parliament, the Reichstag, did on 24 March 1933, with Hitler.
Good Italians.
“The Banality of Evil”
“The Banality of Evil”: a cartoon about haters that wish “buon appetito” to the fishes when yet another shipwreck tragedy happens.
“Extinction Rebellion”
When I saw for the first time signs of the Extinction Rebellion movement I was biking to the office, in Amsterdam. I was in front of the Rijksmuseum, right in the center.
The traffic had been blocked by a group of people, not many, they could have been around 30, maybe even less. They were waving around banners about a revolution that is coming, about the need for rebellion against what’s killing the Earth – ironically, us.
I didn’t give it much credit. Of course I am supportive, but taking to the streets has never really been my thing.
And yet, after that episode, those signs have been multiplying. I started seeing banners and manifestos by Extinction Rebellion, I read about them in the news, I was stopped on a bridge in Maastricht, given some fliers, provided with info on what should be done to stop the catastrophe that’s ahead, for us and our planet.
And then more signs, when this summer heatwaves arrived, together with tornadoes, stone-sized hail, droughts, death, to remind us that a rebellion might be needed indeed, and that everyone must play its part.
I draw political cartoons so that’s what I did, and I perfectly know it’s not – not even by far – enough. But it’s a way, for me, to reflect on the possibility of our extinction from another perspective and better understand how – and if, if – to stop it.
Because in fact, rebelling against extinction doesn’t mean we need to save ourselves, we need to stop our extinction. We need, instead, to save all the other human beings we are killing, first. Save them from us.
So this is my latest for Renewable Matter. It pairs up with a must-read editorial by Emanuele Bompan, you can find it here! http://www.renewablematter.eu/en/art/1137/XR
“Attack to Democracy”
“Attack to Democracy”: a cartoon about The New York times deciding to give up on freedom of expression, not publishing political cartoons anymore.
