Zunar’s Comics Criticized By Malaysian Officials

In what may be a crowning achievement of groan-worthy moments related to comics and expression, a government official in Malaysia has gone on the record expressing regret that Zunar's comics criticize the prime minister, keeping alive the fantasy they are some sort of concerted effort to topple the government and now further indicts the cartoonist for taking the issues onto a world stage instead of keeping them within national borders.

I don't even know what to do about that last one. If you arrest and harass an artist with international reach, that arrest and harassment is going to be covered internationally. In this case, it's the treatment of the artist that's been 1000X the story over any of the straight-forward and familiar-in-tone message of that artist's work. Oppressors never see their oppression as a source for criticism. It's like blaming the buckets for a cracked pipe.
 
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