Catching Up With Zunar: London Exhibit, Civil Suit Defendant Claims Cartoons Could Do Harm

* the Wall Street Journal has profiled the Malaysian cartoonist Zunar in advance of a London show featuring about 80 of his cartoons. There's a pretty decent contextual placement of the cartoonist's struggles with is government and where that stands in terms of more general political realities facing that regime.

* I have no idea why this article on the ongoing civil suit pursued by Zunar against government agencies and actors identifies one of the defendants as a witness in the first graph; it seems like someone testifying that the cartoonist's work could incite hatred and cause confusion really doesn't have as much weight when it's exactly the kind of testimony required to get that person out of the consequences of the suit. In other words, it'd only be news if the testimony was directed in any other way than that characterization. Other than that curious presentation, the article seems a thorough piece about the current effort by Zunar to receive some relief from efforts that came to a head in 2010 and have effectively disrupted significant elements of his career as a cartoonist in his home country.

* if you're interested in seeing some of Zunar's most recent work, Cartoon Movement has been publishing him.
 
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