Abbas Naaseri / In the past one or two years, we have witnessed the rapid passing of cartoonists — whether due to old age, illness, or accident. Many of them have left us, and I doubt whether such great masters can truly be replaced by new artists of the same strength.
Today, all over the world, the Angel of Death takes the lives of cartoonists. Mayors, political and cultural officials, and investors bring about the death of long-standing and prestigious festivals by withholding their support. Pseudo-artists spread death into cartoon and caricature through artificial intelligence, copying, and countless unprofessional methods. And some people, in this chaos, fabricate statistics for their festivals, collecting works in different ways sometimes even for side sections outside the competition and by purchasing them and then present these as participants, thus bringing about the death of the credibility of festivals.
With all these different kinds of death pouring down upon cartoon and caricature with such speed, can this art survive?
I do not wish to take an overly negative or bitter view; I only point out these issues as a diagnosis in hope of finding a cure. The world of cartoon still holds its beauty — one can still drive along its green roads, still fall in love within it, still watch its sunrises. Life in cartoon still flows.
In the coming weeks, we will dissect each of these “deaths” in turn, and search for a remedy to revive it.
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Weekly Single Page of Cartoonmag
No 53
Saturday , 23. Aug . 2025
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