Within all the brouhaha that the election of Herman Van Rompuy as the first European President (or rather, the permanent president of the European Council of heads of states and government) brought along, this cartoon by Zak in De Morgen may be the best reaction.
(cartoon © 2009 De Persgroep Publishing – translation : “Europe has its first white president”)
This cartoon by Kim Duchateau in tuesday’s De Morgen explains the result of Moulinsart’s handling of the press at the opening of the new Hergé museum in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. For more, check my post at Forbidden Planet.
As an aside to this, the Musée Hergé had better take care of the SEO of their website – if you enter “musee herge” as search terms in Google, the official site only shows up as tenth ranked item…
De Morgen cartoonist Kim Duchateau did this topical cartoon on the crisis and the Cannes festival. I like it when there’s no translation necessary…
“We’ve been walking for hours already, and we’re still not at the Angoulême Comics Festival”
“Well… We ARE walking against the reading direction…”
Nice self-referential comic from Kim Duchateau, in De Morgen.
Here’s a final set of examples on how Tintin and related elements are used as a cultural icon in journalism and topical cartooning. Above, the front page of the april 3, 1987 edition of the Flemish daily De Morgen. It shows La Castafiore singing her famous aria, only now it’s not seeing her beauty that makes her laugh, but the scandals, shennanigans and goings-on that plagued the National Opera at that time.
Below, the Thompson twins (who, in fact, are not even brothers) are used by Flemish cartoonist Gerard Alsteens to comment on the Mexican elections somewhere in the mid-80’s, where everybody claimed they had one.
“I win”
“I would even state, ‘I win’”
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