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'''Carlos Latuff''' is a freelance [[political cartoonist]], born in [[November 30]], [[1968]], in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].
'''Carlos Latuff''' is a freelance [[political cartoonist]], born in [[November 30]], [[1968]], in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].

== Early life ==
Carlos grew up in a wealthy suburb in the north west part of Rio de Janeiro. His parents had divorced when he was a child, but his Father who owned a large construction company in Argentina, left his mother and wed his new bride in Israel where he later made Aliyah. His step Father was a Cantor and his mother was a shop keeper. Carlos enjoyed good grades during school and received multiple awards for mathmetics and art; however during his early high school years he began to have complications with his teachers and was expelled from his High School for continuous misbehaviour. Shortly after being expelled, Carlos had a minor run in with the law for theft. He plead guilty to avoid jail sentence by agreeing to see a psychologist and report to probation. The psychologist found that Carlos was a gifted young man, with a lot of anger from his Father's divorce to his mother, and he relieved his anger by drawing. On Latuff's DeviantART web site, he suggests that this is the time he realized that his future was in cartooning, a hobby he had since childhood.
Carlos now resides in Brazil, but also spends a great deal of time with his newly wed husband, Javier, who practises psychology in Toronto, Ontario. They have been married for 4-months now, amid speculation it's not true due to the nature of his writings was confirmed by Latuff on his official Facebook site. Some of his admirers critize him for admitting his homosexuality due to its forbidden nature in the countries where much of his supporters come from, while other supporters are supportive of Carlos and Javier and say his personal life is irrelevant to the truth of his drawings.


==Published works==
==Published works==

Revision as of 01:59, 4 November 2007

From official biography on DeviantART, published on DeviantART website in 2006.

Carlos Latuff is a freelance political cartoonist, born in November 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Early life

Carlos grew up in a wealthy suburb in the north west part of Rio de Janeiro. His parents had divorced when he was a child, but his Father who owned a large construction company in Argentina, left his mother and wed his new bride in Israel where he later made Aliyah. His step Father was a Cantor and his mother was a shop keeper. Carlos enjoyed good grades during school and received multiple awards for mathmetics and art; however during his early high school years he began to have complications with his teachers and was expelled from his High School for continuous misbehaviour. Shortly after being expelled, Carlos had a minor run in with the law for theft. He plead guilty to avoid jail sentence by agreeing to see a psychologist and report to probation. The psychologist found that Carlos was a gifted young man, with a lot of anger from his Father's divorce to his mother, and he relieved his anger by drawing. On Latuff's DeviantART web site, he suggests that this is the time he realized that his future was in cartooning, a hobby he had since childhood. Carlos now resides in Brazil, but also spends a great deal of time with his newly wed husband, Javier, who practises psychology in Toronto, Ontario. They have been married for 4-months now, amid speculation it's not true due to the nature of his writings was confirmed by Latuff on his official Facebook site. Some of his admirers critize him for admitting his homosexuality due to its forbidden nature in the countries where much of his supporters come from, while other supporters are supportive of Carlos and Javier and say his personal life is irrelevant to the truth of his drawings.

Published works

Latuff's works have been published in DMagazine (Italy), Power of Working Class[1](South Korea), and other newspapers and magazines.[2][3] Latuff's works have also been published on different Indymedia websites and several of his cartoons were also published on the Gush Shalom website. His work is also published on Norman Finkelstein's official website [8]

Themes

From the Forgiveness series.
File:Ariel Sharon by Latuff.jpg
From the Ariel Sharon series.

Since his trip to West Bank in 1999, Carlos Latuff has been invited by the Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy,[4] and authored several comics about the Middle East situation.

Particularly, in his We are all Palestinians cartoon series, various groups, including Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, Black South Africans during Apartheid, Native Americans, and Tibetans in China, are all shown stating "I am Palestinian".[5] His work called Forgiveness displays drawings of Muslims and Jews illustrating quotes from Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Victor Hugo and Voltaire.[6]

Latuff has also made a series of cartoons that portray Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon[7][8][9], United States President George W. Bush, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and British PM Tony Blair among other politicians as monsters and as Nazis.[10]

Controversies

Latuff himself has described his work as controversial.[11]

In 2002 the Swiss-based Jewish organization Aktion Kinder des Holocaust sued the Independent Media Center (IMC, also known as Indymedia) of Switzerland on the charge of anti-Semitism. The reason was a cartoon of Latuff's We are all Palestinians series,[12] published in Swiss IMC website, which depicted a Jewish boy in Warsaw Ghetto saying: "I am Palestinian."[13][14][15][16] The criminal proceedings were suspended by Swiss court.[17] The official judgement stated that:

Even if the observer is emotionally biased against the Jewish people with this [cartoon], it is not the Jewish people as such that is being criticized, but their political behaviour towards the Palestinians. The issue is not a certain characterization of the Jews, but their stance in the current conflict. The constitutional equality of the Jews as human beings is thereby not denied. (p.2, paragraph 1.2.)

Aktion Kinder des Holocaust stated, in its reply:

The district attorneyship talks about "THE Jewish people", which seems to have "ONE political behaviour" towards Palestinians. The invention of a homogeneous Jewish attitude of "the Jewish people" is a manifold, scientifically proven anti-Semitic/anti-Jewish stereotype! Not only is the "Jewish people" denied pluralistic political attitudes - this view specially is the basis for the anti-Semitic frenzy of the existence of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy.[17]

In August 2006, Latuff reported that comic strips from his Tales of Iraq War[18] series were published, alongside an interview, in Al-Raed, "a Sunni magazine in Iraq".[19]

In 2006, Latuff entered, was placed second and won $4,000 in the controversial International Holocaust Cartoon Competition. Latuff's image compared the Israeli West Bank barrier with the Nazi concentration camps.[20] The competition itself was controversial - it was criticised by the then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Israeli foreign ministry, Reporters Without Borders, the Anti-Defamation League and others.[21][22][23] Latuff's entry was described as "Holocaust inversion", a variety of Holocaust denial, by scholar Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld.[24] A cartoon by Latuff depicting Alan Dershowitz masturbating over the killing of Lebanese citizens, which illustrated an article by prominent anti-Zionist Norman Finkelstein, provoked further controversy.[25]

References

  1. ^ Power of Working Class magazine
  2. ^ http://users.resist.ca/~moak47/art/main.php?g2_itemId=2951
  3. ^ http://users.resist.ca/~moak47/art/main.php?g2_itemId=2949
  4. ^ http://www.pcpd.org/
  5. ^ http://www.sinkers.org/latuff
  6. ^ http://www.ism-london.org.uk/forgiveness.php
  7. ^ "Ariel Sharon portrait by ~latuff". deviantART. 2003-06-08. Retrieved 2007-09-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Ariel Sharon by ~latuff". deviantART. 2003-06-07. Retrieved 2007-09-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "The Godfather by ~latuff". deviantART. 2003-05-02. Retrieved 2007-09-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ [1][2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
  11. ^ Google Cache: Letter from Latuff to fans Feb 10, 2001
  12. ^ http://www.sinkers.org/latuff/
  13. ^ http://www.sinkers.org/latuff/waap7.gif
  14. ^ http://www.akdh.ch/ps/woz040402.htm
  15. ^ http://www.akdh.ch/indymedia4.htm
  16. ^ http://www.akdh.ch/latuff2.htm
  17. ^ a b Hamadeh, Anis (August 2002). "Jewish peace activists and Israeli violence". Retrieved 2007-09-21.
  18. ^ http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/
  19. ^ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38396669/
  20. ^ winners of the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Competition.
  21. ^ Associated Press report, November 2006
  22. ^ Arab Media Review: Anti-Semitism and Other Trends July - December 2006: Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest
  23. ^ David Cesarani article, Guardian
  24. ^ "AHMADINEJAD, IRAN, AND HOLOCAUST MANIPULATION: METHODS, AIMS, AND REACTIONS", February 2007
  25. ^ http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=597
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