Drawn In Blood: The Syrian Cartoonists Who Live And Die By Their Pens

“It is in many ways the role of a cartoonist to bring emotive weight to events as enormous as the Syrian civil war. Raslan’s darkly humorous, almost sarcastic drawings showed the violence from the perspective of someone who dared to have optimism. … These cartoonists, then, operate in a liminal space. They publish their work for a global audience, but many cannot sign their art for safety reasons.”

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