Guardian article

An article on The Guardian website referring to the history and growth of Russian satirical comment.

Russian Street Art

Interesting article on a street artist involved with the anti-Putin demonstrations, with some good visuals.

Post-election use of caricature in Putin fight-back

Very interesting article on Time Magazine's website including a reference to a deck of cards, produced by the Kremlin, with caricatures of the opposition leaders on the Jokers. Fascinating retaliatory use, creating a caricature war. I'd quite like a set of these cards, but in the meantime, there are some great images online.

These decks of cards have been handed out to supporters, turned into sandwich boards and worn around Moscow, turned into placards and taken on rallies, and now posted online.

Images via: http://demidov-anton.livejournal.com/68581.html

Very interesting phenomenon. Comes so close to Putin's accusations of US meddling in Russian elections, for one thing. For another thing, the caricatures are satirical, but not as biting as some of the anti-Putin imagery (not that they were especially vicious, especially compared with Krokodil). There are a large number of references to Russian/Soviet historical personalities in these images, which would be fascinating to analyse. It also reveals some interesting attitudes to the power of caricature. There may have been other instances as well, but this is reminiscent of the USA's use of the deck of cards analogy for those wanted for involvement with humanitarian crimes in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

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More articles on the same theme here and here.

More Putin Cartoons

Story on the Moscow Times about banned Putin cartoons, with a link to an online gallery of the images. 

Евгений Борисович Щеглов график, карикатурист

Very interesting website by Evgenii Shcheglov.

http://e-shcheglov.ru/

Cartoonia.ru - The БOЛЬШАЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ КАРИКАТУРЫ

Fantastic online resource, including interviews, archives of images and artist biographies.

http://www.cartoonia.ru/

Stalin in cartoons.

Russian exhibition of Stalin cartoons.

Mikhail Zlatkovsky, 18 Dec 2009

http://www.rferl.org/content/journalists_in_trouble_russian_cartoonists_try_stalin_/2241288.html

Caricature competition.

New Izvestiia newspaper's current caricature competition.

http://caricaturque.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-izvestia-cartoon-contest-2011.html

Russian caricatures from 1812, in Oxford.

An excellent introduction, with links to the images.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/RussianCaricatures.htm

Russian Comics online

Russian online cartoon archive. With an English version.

http://www.comics.ru/index.htm