Saturday editorial cartoons
For those who enjoy political cartoons, check out The Saturday Cartoons from Bob Geiger.
posted by Crossed Crocodiles at
9/02/2006 06:20:00 PM
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- Name: Crossed Crocodiles
In Akan symbolism there is a design of crossed crocodiles, two joined crocodiles that share the same stomach. You can find the description at the Akan Cultural Symbols Project by scrolling down the page of Akan Political Beliefs. I have always been particularly fond of this as a symbol for the competing interests of constituents in a democracy. FUNTUMFUNAFU DENKYEM FUNAFU - JOINED CROCODILES Symbol of UNITY IN DIVERSITY, DEMOCRACY, and UNITY OF PURPOSE The symbol is also referred to as odenkyem mmemu - Siamese twin crocodiles joined at the stomach. From the proverb: Funtumfunafu, denkyemmfunafu, won afuru bomu nso wodidi a na worefom efiri se aduane ne de ye di no mene twitwi mu. Literal translation: Two headed crocodiles fight over food that goes to a common stomach because each relishes the food in its throat. This symbol, in essence, depicts the Akan notions about the inherent difficulties of reconciling individual and group interests in a democratic system. (You can reach me at crossedcrocodiles [the usual at] gmail [dot] com.
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1 Comments:
I really wish you would consider not linking to web sites that illegally republish editorial cartoon images on their site. They're violating copyright law by doing so.
Amateur web publishers such as Bob Geiger (and many others) are mistakenly under the impression that they can "borrow" the images (and illegally store copies of them on their servers) for enhancing their own site, or for showing how politically hip they are, or for the love of cartooning, or for whatever reason.
They think they are doing no harm, even going so far as to imply they're doing us a favor by "distributing" our work to a larger audience.
This is B.S.
Using our work without permission is theft, plain and simple.
If you appreciate our sweat and blood, then do the right thing and link to the cartoons at a site that sponsors them, like a news site, or the cartoonist's own site, or our organization's site, editorialcartoonists.com. You'd be doing us a favor. You'd be doing our craft a favor. And you'd be doing it the "respectful" way.
Thanks.
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moquiti, at 1:58 AM, October 17, 2006
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