‘Blistering Barnacles and Castrates’
Past event
Cancelled
Postponed
16 Apr. →
16 May'21
Censorship and Comics
It is not only journalists who are sometimes hindered or threatened when trying to do their job. Cartoonists and comic artists have also always been on the front line when it comes to exercising free speech. The author and comics expert Jan Smet recently published Duizend bommen en castraten on the subject. With poignant examples this book looks at how over the years censors have come down hard on the comic strip. Lucky Luke was no longer allowed to smoke, the Marsupilami was accused of putting bad ideas into children’s heads – to give just a couple of examples. The educational exhibition takes you on a visual journey through a century of these tensions. The cartoonists and graphic narrators on one hand, and the publishers, editors, religious leaders and politicians on the other.
©Morris/Dupuis
©Morris/Dupuis
©Dupuis/Erven Franquin
©Morris/Dupuis
©Morris/Dupuis
©Dupuis/Erven Franquin
Practical information
Dates
Location
BOZARLAB
Rue Ravensteinstraat, 23 1000 BrusselsSee also
Collaboration
- Stripgids/Strip Turnhout vzw
- Uitgeverij Vrijdag
Support
- Vlaamse Overheid
- Turnhout
In the framework of
- Difference Day 2021