A Few Comics Items Related To Recent Events In Egypt

Here are a few news items with some reasonable claim of connection to recent events in Egypt culminating late last week and over the weekend with the resignation of their longtime president Hosni Mubarak.

* Carlos Latuff made 34 cartoons about Egypt from January 23 through the weekend just past, which I think makes him the cartoonist with the most attention paid and most work done on that particular subject during its time in the international spotlight. I haven't been able to find a place where all of these cartoons were published, but I'm still looking -- his twitpic account is down as I type this.

* Ammar Abboud was nice enough to write in on what homegrown graphic novelist Magdy El-Shaffee was up to during this momentous period in Egyptian history: "Magdy was part of the protesters in the streets, he did a short interview (in Arabic) on the 29th of january saying no to Mubarak and to the Muslim Bothers in the same time." I was interested in El-Shaffee's whereabouts not just because he happened to be a comics-maker in that country but because his work ran afoul of the Egyptian government in recent and the graphic novel that caused those problems plugged into some of the same feelings of unease and dissatisfaction among young people that seemed to drive the protests.

* Darryl Cagle has two posts worth perusing: a slideshow of Cagle-related cartoonists on the ouster of Mubarak and a post on the response from international cartoonists.

* here's a piece that is more about art and artists generally and the role they played over the 18 days of the formal protests.

* Andy Khouri at Comics Alliance caught that an Arabic-language comic book about Martin Luther King, Jr. was apparently distributed to protesters.

* finally, in case you missed it -- and it did come out on a Friday night, not exactly comics-related surfing's prime hours -- Domitille Collardey and Sarah Glidden collaborated on a short comic about watching the events from afar: Egypt From 5,000 Miles Away. There's a reasonably interesting discussion in the comments thread about the fine line between writing about viewing an event and how that relates to those who participated in it directly, a back-and-forth that's intensified in comics since 9/11. I have to say, though, I'm pretty sensitive to that kind of thing and that particular criticism did not occur to me while reading their comic.
 
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