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This book chronicles Zunar's fight through cartoons from 2009 to 2018. Peppered within the pages of this book are some of Zunar's timeless philosophies on cartooning, which have kept him going despite the odds stacked against him - arrests, court charges, banning of books, travel ban. In this book, Zunar also sheds light on the methodological approach he utilises in his cartoons to effectively deliver his messages. From the conception of a cartoon right down to inking it, Zunar bares what goes on his mind when he draws these cartoons. From being labelled controversial to becoming an award winning cartoonist, this is Zunar's fight through cartoons in his own words.

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	24 avril 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789814868099
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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FIGHT THROUGH CARTOONS

2019 Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited
Text and illustrations Zunar
Reprinted 2019
Published by Marshall Cavendish Editions
An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International

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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing in Publication Data
Names: Zunar.
Title: Fight through cartoons : my story of harassment, intimidation jail / Zunar.
Description: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, [2019]
Identifiers: OCN 1091060593 | eISBN: 978 981 4868 09 9
Subjects: LCSH: Zunar. | Cartoonists--Malaysia--Biography. | Malaysia--Politics and government--21st century--Caricatures and cartoons.
Classification: DDC 320.9595--dc23
Printed in Singapore
Cover photo by Sukhbir Cheema. Assisted by Azman MatNoh.
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Kartini
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Truth over Tyranny
AN INTRODUCTION TO MALAYSIAN POLITICS
CHAPTER 1
Power of the Pen
Method of drawing cartoons
CHAPTER 2
They Cannot Ban My Mind
The story of Gedung Kartun
CHAPTER 3
Pinch or Punch?
Perak Darul Kartun
CHAPTER 4
Even My Pen has a Stand
1 Funny Malaysia and Isu Dalam Kartun
CHAPTER 5
My Cartoons are Dangerous!
Battle at the courts
CHAPTER 6
Cartoon-O-Phobia
Sedition and handcuffs
CHAPTER 7
Arrest of the Assistants
Pirates of the Carry-BN and The Conspiracy to Imprison Anwar
CHAPTER 8
Talent is Not a Gift
Of Birkin, rings and diamonds
CHAPTER 9
Scratch and Win the Law
Funny and spicy cartoons
CHAPTER 10
Twit, Twit
Nights in police lock-up
CHAPTER 11
Which is Bigger, Fear or Responsibility?
Nine sedition charges, 43 years jail
CHAPTER 12
Prisoner in Homeland
Meeting Kofi Annan in Geneva
CHAPTER 13
Me Against Gangsters
Cartoon exhibition attacked and smashed
CHAPTER 14
The Illegal Tea
Detrimental to parliamentary democracy
CHAPTER 15
Struggle is an Endless Marathon
If you cannot beat them, laugh at them
EPILOGUE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TRUTH OVER TYRANNY

Z UNAR S F IGHT T HROUGH C ARTOONS is not so much about a world-famous cartoonist and the cartoons that have played such a role in changing the history of his country of Malaysia as it is a journey through pain, bravery, risk-taking, and, we hope (because his story is far from over), a final victory for courage and Zunar s breed of truth over tyranny.
His book is important to the history of the battle for human rights. It is not the typical inventory of political cartoons about a certain topic or over a particular political period. Zunar has given us what is quite rare in the world of human rights and political cartooning. He opens the door into the anatomy of how a tyrant and demagogue uses the tools and institutions of state power to stop the critics that would point the world s attention to their lawlessness, tyranny and demagoguery.
The best political cartoonists are a breed apart. They land somewhere in between Don Quixote tilting at windmills, and Gandhi making salt under the noses of the British. Very serious stuff that we are expected to laugh at: Samuel Clemens once wrote, Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Confirming this, 25 years ago one of the first lessons I learned, as a human rights worker focusing on political cartoonists in trouble, was that tyrants can usually survive any challenge except that of their people laughing at them. Rebels can be defeated by the army with a couple of tanks. International human rights organizations can be deconstructed into powerless paper tigers. Your nation s resources can be sold to powerful international corporate interests who will protect the tyrant and thereby protect their investors. Laughing at tyrants can have some strange results. One of our clients reported that a man in a small town picked up a newspaper off the street, turned to the political cartoon and started laughing hysterically. A passing policeman arrested him and charged him with insulting the head of state. Not the cartoonist: the reader who laughed.
What is so important about Zunar s Fight Through Cartoons is how he gives historians, human rights students and workers, political cartoonists, free-speech advocates, and freedom of speech researchers an insider s personal roadmap on how a tyrannical government shuts down free speech. This one man s intimate roadmap about his own personal journey is relatively difficult to find in the literature surrounding freedom of speech and human rights.
No action takes place in isolation. Everything is context. For the tyrants of the world to be countered by mere mortals, the world of the tyrant and the tyrants reach must be understood in great depth. The modern democracies, and the large and hopefully powerful nongovernmental organizations whose missions charge them to fight the tyrants, all must operate under policies, management procedures, chains of command, competing interests with other organizations, considerations about their funding sources, that put limitations on their actions. The well entrenched tyrant is not bothered by any considerations of the democratic process. Once the tyrant has gained control over the legislative bodies, the police and crime investigators, the judicial system right up to the Supreme Court and, of course, the media, the tyrant pays little attention to traditional rules or regulations of democratic governance. They are free to constantly and immediately evolve strategies and methods to crush those who challenge them. Bilateral and multilateral agencies like the UN must adhere to all the above bureaucratic challenges when changing policies or taking new directions to counteract the dance of the tyrants. Any good self-respecting tyrant can run circles around the administratively restricted governments and agencies working against him or her.
Zunar is showing us how he used the tyrant s own systems created to work against him to work for him. How very clever and, in so doing, he challenges the status quo of the human rights advocacy world to confront their own inability to respond quickly to the ever-changing new strategies and methods of the tyrant. In his book, Fight Through Cartoons , we see Zunar in the ring with a George Foreman, and he s just dancing around, fluttering like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
In the world of editorial cartoonists, we like to think that a good political cartoon makes you think. For me, that doesn t do it. If the cartoonist doesn t make me feel, then the job isn t complete. It might be the difference between the very best cartoons motivating readers to write a letter of complaint to a congressperson or local politician, but when you are made to feel, you join a movement in protest in the streets.
Zunar s now infamous cartoon of him in chains, handcuffs and ropes straining with his pen in his mouth to complete a drawing is such a cartoon. The cartoon was drawn during one of his darkest days when he was facing continued arrests, harassment, possibly years in prison, and when the Najib government seemed to be at the peak of its power - this was the time that he produced the most emotionally powerful cartoon of his life. This cartoon helped galvanize and focus the entire human rights and cartooning world to feel what it s like to have their lives stripped, their character dirtied, their honor compromised, and their whole family terrorized. Anyone who has ever had the proverbial rug pulled out from underneath them and left to dangle alone in the cold or who has been shunned by their community will feel exactly what Zunar has felt.

I will also say that in my 25 years of experience with Cartoonist Rights Network International and the dozens upon dozens of cartoonists I and our Board of Directors and staff have worked with over the years, that post-traumatic stress disorder at some level or another is the most common short and long impact that a cartoonist under extreme threat can feel. Their ability to plan, their inability to see their situation clearly and objectively, the slow but inexorable withdrawal of friends and even family, the institutions of power that should be protecting now used against you, it all leaves the cartoonist with a profound sense of isolation and helplessness. It seems that there is no one there to help you. No one understands what you have experienced. Things are going on in your head and in your life that you dare not speak about. While to my knowledge none of our cartoonists have committed suicide, many of them are left broken, strangers in strange lands, with no guidelines on how to climb out, and persevere and survive.
Most, like Zunar, have shown