"This graphic narrative tells the stories of political cartoonists around the world whose work has been censored"--
Cherian George is Professor of Media Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University's School of Communication. A former journalist, he is the author of Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy (MIT Press). Sonny Liew is a celebrated cartoonist and illustrator and the author of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a New York Times bestseller, which received three Eisner Awards and the Singapore Literature Prize.
Series Editor's Introduction
Preamble
1. Introduction: The Power and Precarity of the Pencil
2. When Censorship Backfires
3. We Know Where You Live: Intimate Invasions
4. Post-Orwellian Censorship
5. Gilded Cages: Censorship by Seduction
6. Market Censorship: Freedom for Those Who Own a Press
7. Democratically Rejected: The X'ed Files
8. From Liberation Technology to Flatform Censorship
9. No Man's Land: Dissent in Wartime
10. The Boys' Club: Gender-based Censorship
11. The Trap of Accidental Associations
12. Hate Speech, Taking Offense, and the "Good Censor"
13. Undrawable: The Aura of the Sacred
14. Je Suis Charlie: A Symbolic Battle
15. Concluding Lines, in Words and Cartoons
Acknowledgments
Artists Featured
Notes
Bibliography
Index