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Krokodil's 90th Birthday

Some TV news reports I missed at the time, on the 90th anniversary of Krokodil's birth!

'National' comic book styles

BBC article here on national characteristics of comic books and styles.

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Ivan Semenov exhibition

Details here about an exhibition in Moscow this week of cartoons by Ivan Semenov, Krokodil stalwart.

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Vitalii Goriaev exhibition

Details of the Vitalii Goriaev (sometime Krokodil artist) at the New Manege in Moscow at the moment.

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Ukrainian Cartoonist

An interesting article about Jaroslaw Stetsko, Ukrainian cartoonist who worked for Pepper. 

Brief report about the moral benefits of Soviet caricature!

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Several conference papers by Stephen Norris over the last couple of years concerning Boris Efimov and Soviet caricature.

17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference Program, Ohio State University, 2010

7th Penn Slavic Symposium, 2010 and here 

TOTALITARIAN LAUGHTER: CULTURES OF THE COMIC UNDER SOCIALISM, 2009

A Tatar Rodchenko?

An interesting article here about a Tatar artist who used caricature in his works. 

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Drawing the Curtain

An exhibition held in London recently, to celebrate the launch of a new book by Tim Benson, on cartoon imagery from USSR and the West during the Cold War.

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Russian protest art on show

An article with some visuals on an exhibition of modern Russian protest art, which has some striking similarities to street art, Soviet poster art and Krokodil. I'm intrigued by the dissected crocodile in one of the photos.

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British satire

Programme on BBC Radio 4 here about British satire, including visual satire.

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Interview with Vor, leader of the Voina Collective

Video interview here:

http://seansrussiablog.org/2012/02/07/russian-protest-art-in-the-stream/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seansrussiablog%2FYytm+%28Sean%27s+Russia+Blog%29

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Modern Russian satire

An article about the contemporary use of manipulated images in Russian politics.

And another one.