Recast

In the past three years, I have been invited to two French cartoon festivals on three occasions. These wonderful events are amazing celebrations that lure cartoonists from all over the world. Some are extended week-long parties that engulf the entire villages where they are held. People come to see the cartoons, meet the artists, and to watch us draw. I just returned from my latest adventure in France -- the RIDEP, or Rencontres Internationales du Dessin de Presse, in Carquefou. My favorite part is meeting the other cartoonists from around the world. This year, the festival gathered 26 artists from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mexico, Switzerland, Australia, Holland, Germany, Greece, Romania, the United States, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Spain, and France. The festival provides the unique opportunity for cartoonists to trade their original work with each other -- a longstanding tradition. I gave one of mine to my pal, Mohammed Amin Aghael, in exchange for one of his, featured here as a symbol that art, like friendship, knows no borders.

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Recast is a regular feature for dscriber.com by Liza Donnelly, a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker magazine. Some of the drawings in this series are cartoons the magazine decided not to publish or ones that Donnelly simply did for her own pleasure. She is internationally recognized for her work for Cartooning for Peace and she lectures on cartoons, the art of cartooning, and feminism. Donnelly's new book, "Laugh Lines," will be published this year. Her website is lizadonnelly.com.

 

 

 

 

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