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LEUNIG’S NEW FANS

Iranian cartoonists like Mike.

UPDATE. Leunig’s cartoon has apparently been removed. May have a further update later.

UPDATE II. Le Monde reports Leunig’s entry (via a wily prankster) in the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Fest. Here’s a Altavista translation:

The site explains why this first caricature on the Holocaust was sent by certain a Michael Leunig, living in Melbourne, in Australia, “by solidarity with the Moslem world and to exert its freedom of expression”. This last, which says being caricaturist, explains “to have had difficulties in publish this drawing in its own country” and hopes, if the drawing is published, that that “will clarify the hypocrisy of the Occident vis-a-vis at the freedom of expression”. No independent confirmation was however obtained on the voluntary participation of the famous draughtsman.
It acts of a series of two drawings. In the first, heading Auschwitz 1942, one sees a Jew, carrying star of David and a bundle, entering the concentration camp by the surmounted gate of the inscription “work brings freedom”. In the second, heading Israel 2002, the same man, carrying this time a rifle, moves towards the gate of what resembles a battle field, with the inscription “the war brings peace”.

(Via reader Media Monitor)

Posted by Tim B. on 02/13/2006 at 09:00 AM
  1. This is truly sick.  He doesn’t stand up for freedom of speech in defiance of intimidators of freedom. Rather he supports the freedom from speech imposed by the head hackers and professional haters.  Leunig now feeds the hypocritical, insane, hate merchants of the Muslim world.  As a show of solidarity with the Bali 88 I would dearly like to see Leunig forced to live under Sharia law somewhere, anywhere as long as it isn’t in Brackistan.

    Posted by platey mates on 2006 02 13 at 09:18 AM • permalink

  2. PS Plain Jane would like to stand up for the law being applied to the head hackers in support of the victims of terror.  Leunig need not apply to Janes search for a few good men.

    Posted by platey mates on 2006 02 13 at 09:22 AM • permalink

  3. Did he really? Or is this a joke?

    Posted by powderkeg on 2006 02 13 at 09:25 AM • permalink

  4. This is interesting (from arts and opinion)

    The circus that surrounded the Serrano exhibition at the NGV was well encapsulated by a Leunig cartoon that appeared in the paper at the time. It depicted an outraged Archbishop at the foot of the cross crying, “you’ll be hearing from our lawyers.” Leunig is to my mind quite astute in his observation that the desire to protect and quarantine the sacred can quite easily tend towards the absurd

    Funny how the ‘arsewipe’ is not saying that now. I wonder why?

    Posted by Nic on 2006 02 13 at 09:35 AM • permalink

  5. If they like him so much, couldn’t we all chip in and pay for a ticket to get him there. I’d feel a lot better if he wasn’t in Oz anymore. Call me naive, but I never realised just what an idiot he was.

    Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 02 13 at 09:39 AM • permalink

  6. I really think we aught to take care of our own trash, rather than exporting him somewhere else to nauseate the locals…

    i think with a sturdy bit of four by two and a couple of telephone books, the lunatic could maybe change his tune a bit???

    if it didn’t turn out to be ultimately successful, it would at least have to be very satisfying….

    Posted by casanova on 2006 02 13 at 09:53 AM • permalink

  7. I stand corrected. You are of course right, Casanova. For all their zaniness, we have no right to inflict Leunig on Iran. It could prove to be disastrous distraction from their nuclear squabbles with the West, and their ability to turn out professional-standard holocaust cartoons. Oh, and with regard to the beating, I’m thinking that it wouldn’t be successful in changing his mind, but you’re damned right about it being satisfying. Wish I’d thought of that solution. :-)

    Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 02 13 at 10:12 AM • permalink

  8. Maybe we could set up a line or something where people could pay to have a swing or two???  no need to hog all the fun…  and all proceeds could go to some charity in Israel helping victims of the splodey dopes or something???

    Posted by casanova on 2006 02 13 at 10:19 AM • permalink

  9. Hmmm, Leunig bleating… cogitate cogitate. Ureaka!!

    Is stoop davey around, all we need is to stich leunig into a goat outfit and parachute him in. Leuni will think a good hard rodgering is the prize and the Jihadis IQ will drop every time they have “contact” with him.
    The result will be a whole country as dumb as rocks… or has that been done allready?

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 02 13 at 10:22 AM • permalink

  10. Cartoon is Mike’s, words (I’d have thought obviously) are not. A prankster is at work!

    Posted by Tim B. on 2006 02 13 at 10:25 AM • permalink

  11. Tim, the second link doesn’t work for me, it says the page can’t be found.  The first link is fine, but has no reference to Leunig, and has the message:

    Attention
    Regarding to clarification of the issue of “Holocaust” this website possibly will be closed by United States, in this case please refer to the following address:
    http://www.irancartoon.ir

    I doubt that this site will be blocked by the “United States” (WTF?  Which agency?  The Religious Secret Police, so secret no one has ever heard of them?!??!), so I suspect other problems.

    Including, of course, technical issues with my computer and/or ISP.  Or at the Iranian end. Anyone else have a similar problem?

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 13 at 10:34 AM • permalink

  12. There was something about looney on the first page but it seems to be gone now…

    prank or no, he is still gonna get spanked if he comes over here to the West…  best he stay on his side of Oz…

    Posted by casanova on 2006 02 13 at 10:37 AM • permalink

  13. I also can’t get the second link.

    Posted by Melanie on 2006 02 13 at 10:38 AM • permalink

  14. In what language does “Leunig” translate as “Moore”?  I mean, besides English.

    Maybe we should organize a movement to admonish and slap Leunig whenever he appears in public…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 13 at 10:42 AM • permalink

  15. I can’t get the second link either.  As for those at the first link: are they supposed to be funny, or provocative, or what?  Mostly they were just incomprehensible.

    Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 02 13 at 10:47 AM • permalink

  16. But this is histerical.  Go here and then click on Blame that toon.

    Posted by Melanie on 2006 02 13 at 11:08 AM • permalink

  17. o/t seen in the Oz’s letters column..
    “Glenn Milne’s claim that Beazley’s united front bench described him as A GUTLESS SHITBAG..” ????

    Posted by crash on 2006 02 13 at 11:15 AM • permalink

  18. hmmm, from what i see Kim’s got plenty of guts..  and then some!!!!  at least his nickname isn’t/wasn’t the “garbagebag” like Robert Ray was called or known or something!!!  :o)

    Posted by casanova on 2006 02 13 at 11:17 AM • permalink

  19. If I can make it there,
    I’ll make it anywhere.
    It’s up to you, Tehran, Tehran!

    da-da-dada-da, da-da-dada-da

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 02 13 at 12:18 PM • permalink

  20. #6 i think with a sturdy bit of four by two and a couple of telephone books, the lunatic could maybe change his tune a bit???

    A four by two?  In the US, we call a board of lumber a two by four.  In the same way as water going down the drain, is it reversed in Australia?

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 02 13 at 01:03 PM • permalink

  21. In the same way as water going down the drain, is it reversed in Australia?

    That’s a myth.  But, anyway, they do the same thing here in England:  4x2” lumber, 10x8” photos, etc.

    Posted by jic on 2006 02 13 at 02:44 PM • permalink

  22. Is that like that “balancing an egg on its end during the spring equinox” thing?

    I tried to look at those Iranian contest toons, didn’t get them at all (although the baby with the continent-shaped poo on its diaper was interesting).  I guess I’m too American to appreciate international humor.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 02 13 at 02:50 PM • permalink

  23. If I understand that page properly, most of the cartoons have nothing to do with the Holocaust contest.  The baby with the world on his diaper is Bulgarian, and is from this contest.  And I didn’t get it either.

    Posted by jic on 2006 02 13 at 04:14 PM • permalink

  24. the f’ing mole 9

    Is stoop davey around, all we need is to stich leunig into a goat outfit and parachute him in.

    What’ll ya give me for it?

    The result will be a whole country as dumb as rocks… or has that been done allready?

    Ever been to Ohio?

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 13 at 04:57 PM • permalink

  25. #24.

    Hey!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 02 13 at 07:02 PM • permalink

  26. # 20

    I’ve never heard it called anything but a 2 by 4 (with by pronounced as be).  Maybe casanova’s Victorian or something.  They’re a bit odd down there.

    Posted by Janice on 2006 02 13 at 07:32 PM • permalink

  27. The result will be a whole country as dumb as rocks… or has that been done allready?

    too late, it’s already been done.

    Posted by kae on 2006 02 13 at 07:34 PM • permalink

  28. What?  Not again!  Two disparaging remarks in one night about my fair homeland.  All right, get out the old cut and paste and let’s do some Tim Blair quality editing.

    What the ...?  CINCINNATI!  Hotbed of sin and corruption?  Ohio, a bad place?

    Ok, maybe I haven’t mentioned this here.  But if you should know one thing about the United States of America, it’s this:

    Cincinnati elected George Bush as President.  Ohio elected President Bush  

    We did it.  Not Cleveland, the Mistake on the Lake.  Not Dayton, the little Detroit of Ohio, god help us all.  Not Findlay, home of Ben Roethesberger, the Ohioan who refused to play football for Ohio State, the little bitch, and recently led the Pittsburgh Stoolers to win the Super Bowl, the traitorous little shit.  Not Columbus, not Akron, not even Clark County (although yes, they did vote mostly for George Bush, notwithstanding The Guardian’s grand design to persuade a bunch of Red Man chewing farmers).

    But And for that matter, not Texas, not Florida, not Sydney, not Melbourne, not London, not Toronto. 

    Cincinnati.  We did that.  Ohio, especially Cincinnati.  We did that.

    (cue “Cincinnati, Queen City of Our Fair Land”—if can’t find that, “WKRP in Cincinnati” will do) Ohio State Buckeye football fight song)

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 02 13 at 10:01 PM • permalink

  29. The Age: Leunig suspects pro-war hoaxers

    Perhaps some people making comments on this would to make a few apologies to one, Michael Leunig?

    Posted by entheos on 2006 02 13 at 11:36 PM • permalink

  30. Nope

    Posted by jic on 2006 02 13 at 11:38 PM • permalink

  31. Apologize to that racist buttwipe?  Good one, entheos.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 02 13 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  32. Maybe leunig could start by apologising for being an anti-semitic bigot?

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 14 at 12:01 AM • permalink

  33. hey man (or janice) i’m a sandgroper… west aussie through and through so i will just ignore that Victorian backhander!!!  :o)

    and i don’t recall hearing it referred to as a 2x4???  anyway its sounds much more painful to me to hit someone with a 4x2 than a 2x4???  the dimensions may still work out to 8 square feet or something, but that 4 at the start sounds a lot more ominous to me!!!  :o)

    Posted by casanova on 2006 02 14 at 12:40 AM • permalink

  34. the dimensions may still work out to 8 square feet or something

    More like eight square inches.

    Posted by jic on 2006 02 14 at 01:10 AM • permalink

  35. 29

    Perhaps some people making comments on this would to make a few apologies to one, Michael Leunig?

    Perhaps someone is talking in their prissy little schoolmarm voice because someone just needs a good slap?

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 14 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  36. enthoes: Perhaps some people making comments on this would to make a few apologies to one, Michael Leunig?

    Isn’t the work 100% written and done by Leunig? Why did he even claim that it was a hoax then? Its not a forgery - its a genuine thing. He should be happy- he finally managed to get his work published.

    Posted by Wylie Wilde on 2006 02 14 at 03:19 AM • permalink

  37. it’s 4x2 - that’s why they’re called fourbies.  as in hey achmed, if you can’t find those baseball bats we’ll liberate some fourbies on the way to cronulla. try saying it with twobies instead & jackass achmed will get all confused & think you are talking about tubes of beer, causing his monobrow to wrinkle violently in alarm & puzzlement. he may slap you

    Posted by KK on 2006 02 14 at 09:23 AM • permalink

  38. 31 - my we have a civil tongue don’t we? a racist is a person who descriminates against a person or group of people because of their ‘race’ - to date I don’t think Michael Leunig has done such a thing. He has been critical of governments, institutions, and people in power in various countries - regardless of their race.

    32 - first of all a Semite includes all people who have Semitic languages, which includes Arabs, Palestinians, and Jews (the later of which I am a member).

    36 - the hoax was pretending to be Michael Leuinig, the work was copyrighted and the person making the submission was breaking the law on at least two counts

    I believe that Michael was happy with the work.

    The reason (apart from the fact someone pretended to be him) that Michael was probably unhappy was that it is not about the holocaust per se… it is about the irony of a group of people who were subjected to such violence would then in turn perform such violence on others.

    You might like what he has to say - but that is a part of living in a social liberal society. Just remember that prophets are often crucified by the people for what they say - then afterwards we realise that were right!

    Posted by entheos on 2006 02 15 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  39. it is about the irony of a group of people who were subjected to such violence would then in turn perform such violence on others.

    So you believe that the actions of Israel are equivalent to those of the Nazis?

    Why am I not surprised?

    Posted by jic on 2006 02 15 at 10:38 PM • permalink

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