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Publisher and editor:
Benevento Publishing - A brand of Red Bull Media House GmbH
Oberst-Lepperdinger-Straße 11–15
5071 Wals near Salzburg, Austria
Concept, composition and design:
Team Rottensteiner Red Bull
Art direction:
Marion Bruckmeier
Project management:
Anne-Sophie Stocker
Assistance composition:
Maximilian Rottensteiner
Walter Grill
Final artwork:
Michael Höller
Cover design:
Team Rottensteiner Red Bull
Cover:
Bruce MacKinnon
Picture editors:
Eva Bauer, Markus Kucera
Translation:
Anne Fries
ISBN 978-3-7109-0130-0
eISBN 978-3-7109-5132-9
PAPER. PEN. PANDEMIC.
Viral Cartoons from around the Globe.
Inhalt
PROLOGUE.
A virus, with a diameter far smaller than one ten-thousandth of a millimeter. And yet thanks to its extremely infectious, initially unpredictable and sometimes lethal nature, it has grabbed center stage the world over.
Amidst all the sick madness are the observers, with their knack of spotting the essence of things, and their gift for reproducing it in pictures. They do not report, do not explain, and do not moralize.
Cartoonists scratch away at the surface of events with their pens to expose the underlying issues. Their perspectives bring other, unexpected facets of a subject to light, giving the beholder greater insight, and encouraging him to “think outside the box”.
As well as examining the peculiarities of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the “new normality” in times of crisis, the artists have taken a critical look at the astonishing ways in which people have dealt both with this insidious disease itself, and with various absurd proposals on how to combat it.
What these free thinkers among the commentators on world affairs have produced is every bit as diverse as their visual languages and the senses of humor of their respective cultural groups.
Over 400 works by more than 100 cartoonists in over 50 countries on all continents are collated in this book, which surely also offers a glimmer of hope in these surreal times – because as long as we can still laugh about a threat, it certainly can’t have killed us.
Tex Rubinowitz
Austria
I hate corona – Racist!
IS THE KILLER VIRUS HERE?
Daily Mail, January 24, 2020
KILLER VIRUS NOW SPREADING FAST
Evening Standard, January 30, 2020
THE OUTBREAK
Focus, February 3, 2020
CORONA ALARM!
Bild, February 24, 2020
VIRUS PANIC
Daily Mirror, February 28, 2020
CORONA IS HERE
Dee Telegraf, February 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS CLOSES IN
Daily Guide, March 12, 2020
GLOBAL PANDEMIC
El Periódico de Catalunya, March 12, 2020
MANY LOVED ONES WILL DIE
Daily Mail, March 13, 2020
WAR ON CORONA
Sunday Mail, March 15, 2020
Ilya Katz
Israel
