Posts Tagged “comics”
The return of political cartoons
by j u s t i n . z on May 30, 2011
“You cannot mock a great leader in an Asian Confucian society. If he allows himself to be mocked, he is finished.” Lee Kuan Yew commenting on how the media portrayed the Tiananmen demonstrations using cartoons and caricatures Election fever and the (…)
Urbanism and PAP’s election campaign
by j u s t i n . z on March 16, 2011
While trawling through the Picture Archives Singapore Database for some research on past elections, I came across these two comics that were part of the People’s Action Party (PAP) 1963 elections campaign. This comic resembles a polling card and persuades (…)
I Want to Write
by j u s t i n . z on March 1, 2009
About ordinary things The door is a crossing, a junction marking the divide between the realm of the public and the private, between the chaos of the unformed world outside and the sacrosanct order within and, as such, it is (…)
