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Anton Kannemeyer was born in [[Cape Town]]. He studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Stellenbosch, and did a [[Master of Arts]] degree in illustration after graduating.<ref>[http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dog.htm Comic creator: Joe Dog<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Together with [[Conrad Botes]], he co-founded the magazine ''Bitterkomix'' in 1992 and has become revered for its subversive stance and dark humor.<ref>[http://www.stevenson.info/exhibitionsbs/kannemeyer/index.htm Brodie/Stevenson - Anton Kannemeyer<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203010722/http://www.stevenson.info/exhibitionsbs/kannemeyer/index.htm |date=February 3, 2012 }}</ref> He has been criticized for making use of "offensive, racist imagery".<ref name="mg">[http://mg.co.za/article/2010-08-27-denying-the-privileged-a-voice Denying the privileged a voice - Arts - Mail & Guardian Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Kannemeyer himself said that he gets "lots of hate mail from white [[Afrikaners]]".<ref name="artthrob" />
Anton Kannemeyer was born in [[Cape Town]]. He studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Stellenbosch, and did a [[Master of Arts]] degree in illustration after graduating.<ref>[http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dog.htm Comic creator: Joe Dog<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Together with [[Conrad Botes]], he co-founded the magazine ''Bitterkomix'' in 1992 and has become revered for its subversive stance and dark humor.<ref>[http://www.stevenson.info/exhibitionsbs/kannemeyer/index.htm Brodie/Stevenson - Anton Kannemeyer<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203010722/http://www.stevenson.info/exhibitionsbs/kannemeyer/index.htm |date=February 3, 2012 }}</ref> He has been criticized for making use of "offensive, racist imagery".<ref name="mg">[http://mg.co.za/article/2010-08-27-denying-the-privileged-a-voice Denying the privileged a voice - Arts - Mail & Guardian Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Kannemeyer himself said that he gets "lots of hate mail from white [[Afrikaners]]".<ref name="artthrob" />


His works challenge the rigid image of Afrikaners promoted under [[Apartheid]], and depict Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their [[Afrikaans]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/die-antwoord.html The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord - NYTimes.com]</ref> “X is for Xenophobia”, part of his "Alphabet of Democracy", depicts Ernesto Nhamwavane, a Mozambican immigrant who was burnt alive in [[Johannesburg]] in 2008.<ref>[http://www.citypress.co.za/Lifestyle/News/Book-Review-As-sharp-as-a-sushi-knife-20110115 Book Review – As sharp as a sushi knife | City Press<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Some of Kannemeyer's works deal with the issues of race relations and colonialism, by appropriating the style of [[Hergé]]’s comics, namely from ''[[Tintin in the Congo]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09gall.html Anton Kannemeyer - The Haunt of Fears - New York Times]</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Heller|first=Maxwell|title=What a (Self) Portrait Can Do: Picturing South Africa in New York|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=January 2012|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2011/12/artseen/what-a-self-portrait-can-do-picturing-south-africa-in-new-york}}</ref> In "Pappa in Afrika", Tintin becomes a white African, depicted either as a white liberal or as a racist white imperialist in Africa. In this stereotyped satire, the whites are superior, literate and civilised, and the blacks are savage and dumb.<ref>[http://mg.co.za/article/2010-08-23-pappa-in-afrika Pappa in Afrika -The M&G Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In "Peekaboo", a large acrylic work, the white African is jumping up in alarm as a black man figure pokes his head out of the jungle shouting an innocuous '[[peekaboo]]!'<ref>[http://www.artthrob.co.za/08dec/reviews/stevenson.html Anton Kannemeyer: Fear of a Black Planet at Michael Stevenson - ArtThrob]</ref> A cartoon called "The Liberals" has been interpreted as an attack on white fear, bigotry and [[political correctness]]: a group of anonymous black people (who look like [[golliwogs]]) are about to rape a white lady, who calls her attackers "historically disadvantaged men".<ref name="mg" />
His works challenge the rigid image of Afrikaners promoted under [[Apartheid]], and depict Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their [[Afrikaans]].<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/die-antwoord.html The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord - NYTimes.com]</ref> “X is for Xenophobia”, part of his "Alphabet of Democracy", depicts Ernesto Nhamwavane, a Mozambican immigrant who was burnt alive in [[Johannesburg]] in 2008.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120903232802/http://www.citypress.co.za/Lifestyle/News/Book-Review-As-sharp-as-a-sushi-knife-20110115 Book Review – As sharp as a sushi knife | City Press<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Some of Kannemeyer's works deal with the issues of race relations and colonialism, by appropriating the style of [[Hergé]]’s comics, namely from ''[[Tintin in the Congo]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09gall.html Anton Kannemeyer - The Haunt of Fears - New York Times]</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Heller|first=Maxwell|title=What a (Self) Portrait Can Do: Picturing South Africa in New York|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=January 2012|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2011/12/artseen/what-a-self-portrait-can-do-picturing-south-africa-in-new-york}}</ref> In "Pappa in Afrika", Tintin becomes a white African, depicted either as a white liberal or as a racist white imperialist in Africa. In this stereotyped satire, the whites are superior, literate and civilised, and the blacks are savage and dumb.<ref>[http://mg.co.za/article/2010-08-23-pappa-in-afrika Pappa in Afrika -The M&G Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In "Peekaboo", a large acrylic work, the white African is jumping up in alarm as a black man figure pokes his head out of the jungle shouting an innocuous '[[peekaboo]]!'<ref>[http://www.artthrob.co.za/08dec/reviews/stevenson.html Anton Kannemeyer: Fear of a Black Planet at Michael Stevenson - ArtThrob]</ref> A cartoon called "The Liberals" has been interpreted as an attack on white fear, bigotry and [[political correctness]]: a group of anonymous black people (who look like [[golliwogs]]) are about to rape a white lady, who calls her attackers "historically disadvantaged men".<ref name="mg" />


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

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Anton Kannemeyer
BornAnton Kannemeyer
(1967-10-30) 30 October 1967 (age 57)
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Area(s)Cartoonist
Pseudonym(s)Joe Dog

Anton Kannemeyer (born 1967) is a South African comics artist, who sometimes goes by the pseudonym Joe Dog. Kannemeyer has lectured the University of Pretoria, Technikon Witwatersrand, and was also a senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch.[1][2]

Biography

Anton Kannemeyer was born in Cape Town. He studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Stellenbosch, and did a Master of Arts degree in illustration after graduating.[3] Together with Conrad Botes, he co-founded the magazine Bitterkomix in 1992 and has become revered for its subversive stance and dark humor.[4] He has been criticized for making use of "offensive, racist imagery".[5] Kannemeyer himself said that he gets "lots of hate mail from white Afrikaners".[2]

His works challenge the rigid image of Afrikaners promoted under Apartheid, and depict Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans.[6] “X is for Xenophobia”, part of his "Alphabet of Democracy", depicts Ernesto Nhamwavane, a Mozambican immigrant who was burnt alive in Johannesburg in 2008.[7] Some of Kannemeyer's works deal with the issues of race relations and colonialism, by appropriating the style of Hergé’s comics, namely from Tintin in the Congo.[8][9] In "Pappa in Afrika", Tintin becomes a white African, depicted either as a white liberal or as a racist white imperialist in Africa. In this stereotyped satire, the whites are superior, literate and civilised, and the blacks are savage and dumb.[10] In "Peekaboo", a large acrylic work, the white African is jumping up in alarm as a black man figure pokes his head out of the jungle shouting an innocuous 'peekaboo!'[11] A cartoon called "The Liberals" has been interpreted as an attack on white fear, bigotry and political correctness: a group of anonymous black people (who look like golliwogs) are about to rape a white lady, who calls her attackers "historically disadvantaged men".[5]

Bibliography

  • The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook (2006)
  • Fear of a Black Planet (2008)
  • Bitterkomix 15 (2008)
  • Alphabet of Democracy (2010)
  • Pappa in Afrika (2010)
  • Bitterkomix 16 (2013)
  • Bitterkomix 17 (2016)

References

  1. ^ Kannemeyer, Anton; Botes, Conrad (2006). The Big Bad Bitterkomix handbook. 10 Orange Street Sunnyside, Johannesburg, South Africa: Jacanda Media. p. 214. ISBN 1-77009-303-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ a b The profane world of Anton Kannemeyer - ArtThrob
  3. ^ Comic creator: Joe Dog
  4. ^ Brodie/Stevenson - Anton Kannemeyer Archived February 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b Denying the privileged a voice - Arts - Mail & Guardian Online
  6. ^ The Brilliant Weirdness of Die Antwoord - NYTimes.com
  7. ^ Book Review – As sharp as a sushi knife | City Press
  8. ^ Anton Kannemeyer - The Haunt of Fears - New York Times
  9. ^ Heller, Maxwell (January 2012). "What a (Self) Portrait Can Do: Picturing South Africa in New York". The Brooklyn Rail.
  10. ^ Pappa in Afrika -The M&G Online
  11. ^ Anton Kannemeyer: Fear of a Black Planet at Michael Stevenson - ArtThrob
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