Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

I liked this Financial Times profile of one of the Cartooning For Peace summits, mostly because it brought to the table statements from people other than Plantu and Ali Dilem -- not that those two gentleman aren't eloquent and thoughtful, but they tend to dominate press coverage. It's also filled with some interesting details. One such is that there's a film crew making a documentary of Dilem's life. Someone floats a really interesting notion that editorial cartooning represents a Western tradition even as it's become popular in Africa, to the point that basic elements of caricature were difficult for one of the participating artists to grasp.

Perhaps the most interesting note, and certainly the one appropriate to the above headline, is that apparently the Danish cartoonists responsible for caricatures of Muhammed that led to worldwide political turmoil and violence are still under police protection and still feel as if they're at risk traveling abroad to certain places. That's pretty amazing, considering today's short attention span culture and the fact that we're coming up on the two-year anniversary of the publication of those cartoons.
 
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