Zunar Accepts Cartooning For Peace Prize In Geneva

You can read about the award and the ceremony here. I wasn't aware that Kofi Annan was the honorary head of a cartooning anything, and I think that makes him the most storied person to head a comics organization, ever, since . I'm not sure that isn't more weird than the sitting president of the US writing a comics intro. Wait, I'm sort of sure it isn't. That one takes the all-time prize. Still.

That bit of levity aside -- truthful levity, mind you, that is astonishing -- Zunar has had an entire career's worth of very specific, very tenacious fighting for the right to be heard in unfettered fashion, and I hope that his oft-delayed current trial goes in his favor. There aren't enough awards to give him, and I'm grateful to every one of them for helping keep his personal cause a continued story of interest.
 
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