A Few Minor Updates On The Beating Of Syria’s Ali Ferzat

* this general profile of Ferzat and the beating he received offers up the comparison that's been on the tip of everyone's typing fingers: the murder of Victor Jara.

* I had yet to see this specific response from Chip Bok.

* the Next Media Animation crew has their say.

* one link I've seen has this video reporting that a family member says the cartoonist is recovering and will return to cartooning when he's able.

* this article makes a too-facile comparison between Ferzat's beating and the fact that the television host David Letterman has been threatened by jihadists but probably won't have his tongue cut out. Even if the latter actually happened, it doesn't seem to me to have the same quality as an act that has the imprimatur of the state, but maybe that's just me.

* this video posted at the official site shows a small rally the sites says is in France; it ends with a loud horn going off, so be careful -- I'm not kidding. The footage includes posters made of Ferzat out of what I'm guessing are his own cartoons as component visuals, a process that always leads me to think magic is somehow involved.
 
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