{"id":3081,"date":"2011-07-04T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/07\/04\/comic-strips-on-strike\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T20:48:14","slug":"comic-strips-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/07\/04\/comic-strips-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic strips on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/sigmund.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"174\" alt=\"Blast, the spending cuts on arts are also hitting comics\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nAs I posted about a week ago, the current rightwing supported by racists Dutch government is <a href=\"\/wissewords2\/2011\/06\/26\/rightwing-hobbies\/\">putting through radical cuts on the arts<\/a>. Though these measures have already gone through parliament, resistance against them hasn&#8217;t ended. And although comics in general barely get any government support anyway, that doesn&#8217;t mean cartoonists aren&#8217;t engaged with this struggle. Which is why today a dozen or so odd comic strips in as many daily newspapers had the same message.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/fokke-sukke.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"292\" alt=\"Shit! The spending cuts on arts are also hitting us! Ehh... I see no difference\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nEach participating comic drew its regular cast as stick figures, with some variant on the slogan &#8220;the spending cuts on arts are also hitting comics&#8221;. Participants include Peter de Wit&#8217;s incredibly popular sarky psychiatrist <cite>Sigmund<\/cite> (top), as well as <cite>Fokke &#038; Sukke<\/cite> (bottom), Mark Retera&#8217;s <cite>Dirkjan<\/cite> and many others. It&#8217;s of course unrealistic to expect this protest to change many people&#8217;s minds, but it is a good way to show the disastrous consequences of the slashing of art funding even to people with little use for art. Everybody reads the funnies after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I posted about a week ago, the current rightwing supported by racists Dutch government is putting through radical cuts on the arts. Though these measures have already gone through parliament, resistance against them hasn&#8217;t ended. And although comics in general barely get any government support anyway, that doesn&#8217;t mean cartoonists aren&#8217;t engaged with this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-dutch-politics","category-oh-those-crazy-cloggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}