End of year mood
We reach the last month of the year 2023, with the negative emotions produced by wars, terrorism, drug trafficking, violence of all kinds, extreme ideologies of the right and left coming to power, religious fundamentalisms on the rise, nationalisms, phenomena natural disasters multiplying, economic crises, ethical and moral crises, the devaluation of education, culture, art, good taste and many more problems that make life difficult for us on this Planet. In short, as has happened in every December, but even more so in the Decembers of recent years, our intense desires to achieve a better world in the coming year are repeated.
And the way we can achieve this is through the only two weapons that are within our - and everyone's - reach: love and humor.
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Interview with David Vela,
By Pepe Pelayo
(Writer, comedian and student of the theory and application of humor).
I feel very lucky to be able to interview one of the cartoonists that I enjoy the most today: the Spanish David Vela. (Zaragoza 1967). He is an illustrator and cartoonist, he is also a researcher and has published several books. He could say something that is easy to find on the Internet: for example, that he is a comedian who has obtained around fifty awards and mentions in prominent national and international competitions and that his drawings have been selected for exhibition and published in almost a hundred catalogs of competitions from around the world...
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Growing old with humor | Eray özbek (Turkey, 1942)
By Osvaldo Macedo de Sousa
(Historian, writer and graphic humor specialist)
With more than seven decades of vital and artistic existence, we invite you to another conversation about aging with humor and as a cartoonist activist, nothing like asking: Does the cartoonist also age?
Eray Özbek – his questionnaire can be answered in multiple ways and some of the questions already have answers inside, so I will summarize and answer in a more general way, conveying my way of thinking...
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Visual humor: For a different 2024 with more humor.
By Francisco Puñal Suárez
(Journalist, photographer, scholar and promoter of humor).
The end of 2023 is coming and very soon we will be on the verge of 2024. New challenges begin to be met, with enthusiasm and hope, in a future that we hope will be better, with peace and tranquility in a world where wars and unemployment are unfortunately predominating. , social cuts, the death of children due to lack of medicine, the proliferation of weapons, censorship, “politically correct”, discrimination, consumerism, climate change, violence, selfishness, injustice, governments authoritarian...
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Humors of the world - Austria (Klaus Pitter)
By Osvaldo Macedo de Sousa
(Historian, writer and graphic humor specialist)
If there are countries with a serious image, it is Austria. Its people, they say, are unfriendly, xenophobic... There is even a local joke that says that Vienna in Austria is a beautiful city because only 15% of its population is Austrian... I don't know many Austrian comedians, but Klaus Pitter He is one of those artists with incredible humor, mainly because the main victim of this philosophical and humorous sarcasm is himself...
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Oh, humor, oh humor | Great clown duels in classic Hollywood cinema
By Félix Caballero Wangüemert
(Writer, comedian and journalist).
In the October Humor Sapiens newsletter I published an article about the figure of the clown, to which I intended to pay a heartfelt tribute. I now return to the matter focusing on the figure of the clown in classic Hollywood cinema, especially in the transposition of the traditional circus couple of the whiteface or clown and the august or red nose. The figure of the clown was created by Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), considered the first modern clown; that of the Augustus, by Tom Belling (1843-1900)...
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Humor judío
Por Don L. F. Nilsen
(Assistant Dean. Humanities Division. Emeritus College. Arizona State University.
In 1978, psychologist Samuel Janus conducted a study that found that, although Jews made up only 3 percent of the American population, 80 percent of the country's professional comedians were Jewish. The percentage of comedians is lower today not because there are fewer Jewish comedians, but because in response to ethnic and gender identity movements, many new comedians come from groups that were previously underrepresented. Belle Barth, Danny Kaye and other Jewish comedians substituted Yiddish for English when they wanted to fool English-speaking censors with off-color jokes...
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Day's Anniversaries
December 2023
On December 7, 1725, Dancourt, French stage comedian, died.
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Milestones in the History of Humor
Cadiz Carnival
Review: Its main characteristic, which differentiates it from the rest of the carnivals in the world, is the primacy of humor channeled through the different artistic modalities that are the entertainment of the town, such as chirigotas, troupes, choirs, quartets , the ballads, etc.
Data: This famous carnival has its origins at the end of the 16th century. A version of this type of carnival was replicated in Uruguay at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Humor sapiens Gallery
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"The comic is a game that consists of bringing together objects, ideas and impressions, no matter how irreconcilable they may be."
Elie Auborin
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Posthumous Tribute
In this period they have left us:
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