https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/History-and-Comics https://booksandideas.net/History-and-Comics 2016-05-30T07:00:00Z text/html en Ivan Jablonka Arts History comic books epistemology war Florence Gould Foundation <p>What if historians and cartoonists teamed up with each other? For such a partnership to work, one might choose to illustrate “great History.” Or, better yet, one can find inspiration in graphic investigations guided by a reasoning and based on new sources and original questions.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Bigger-Picture https://booksandideas.net/The-Bigger-Picture 2014-04-17T07:20:21Z text/html en Vanina Géré Politics Arts South Africa comic books sexuality censorship apartheid <p>Conrad Botes and Anton Kannemeyer are two important figures in contemporary political art. Visual artists as well as co-writers of the comics <i>Bitterkomix</i>, these two South-African artists came of age in the early days of Post-Apartheid South-Africa. In the following interview, we discover among other things how their art evolved from a scathing social satire against race issues in South Africa to a more global criticism of racism, political interference and military violence.</p>