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Cartoons for Peace: The Global Art of Satire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Ken Rodgers
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War is tragedy. Bigtime.

Destruction of lives, livelihoods, families, homes, hopes, dreams.

All the things that peace nurtures.

War is so extreme — so irrevocable, so unthinkable — that the very seriousness of militarism invites its exaggeration into pure farce. Satirists and cartoonists are our public disbelievers, anarchic enough to wrestle war's horror into absurdity, allowing us to confront our worst fears with a dash of wry disbelief, an edgy insistence that another reality is possible, that we have a choice.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 2007 , e24
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