TH E HU MOU R The use of humour is a resource that is used on a daily basis in our lives. There are different types of humour: satirical,
Graphic humour is a language rich in genres and performers,
dark humour, clean humour... Humour can become a great
and is mainly expressed through jokes, comic strips, cartoons
tool to ridicule the enemy and to rally the people. It can act
and personal caricatures.
as a catalyst for social cohesion as well as for socialising collective emotions and feelings such as fear, anguish, uncertainty, anger, which are so often experienced during a period of war. We all want to laugh, and laughter has many physical and psychological bene ts.
In many parts of the world, however, the humourist, the comic, the cartoonist continue to be persecuted professions. Villalba (2017) explains: Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh of Cartooning for Peace was imprisoned in Israel for a few months, incommunicado [in 2013]. Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat became famous because he was kidnapped and had his
ngers broken [in 2011]. There are cartoonists who have suffered
physical reprisals and their integrity is in danger. Here, it's dif cult to leave the house and get fucked up with a few punches. The most that can happen is that they don't call you anymore.
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