Anton Kannemeyer
Anton Kannemeyer (born 30 October 1967 in Cape Town) is a South African comics artist, who sometimes goes by the pseudonym Joe Dog. Kannemeyer is also a senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch.[1] He studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Stellenbosch, and did a Master of Arts degree in illustration after graduating.[2] Together with Conrad Botes, he co-founded the magazine Bitterkomix in 1992 and has become revered for its subversive stance and dark humour.[3] He has been criticised for making use of "offensive, racist imagery".[4] Kannemeyer himself said that he gets "lots of hate mail from white Afrikaners".[1]
His works challenge the rigid image of Afrikaners promoted under Apartheid, and depict Afrikaners having nasty sex and mangling their Afrikaans.[5] “X is for Xenophobia”, part of his "Alphabet of Democracy", depicts Ernesto Nhamwavane, a Mozambican immigrant who was burnt alive in Ramaphosa in 2008.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8] 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!'[9] 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”.[4]
References
- ^ a b http://www.artthrob.co.za/03nov/reviews/michaelis_lecture.html
- ^ http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dog.htm
- ^ http://www.stevenson.info/exhibitionsbs/kannemeyer/index.htm
- ^ a b http://mg.co.za/article/2010-08-27-denying-the-privileged-a-voice
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/die-antwoord.html
- ^ http://www.citypress.co.za/Lifestyle/News/Book-Review-As-sharp-as-a-sushi-knife-20110115
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09gall.html
- ^ http://mg.co.za/article/2010-08-23-pappa-in-afrika
- ^ http://www.artthrob.co.za/08dec/reviews/stevenson.html
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