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FREEDOM TO DRAW
The Field’s cartoonists and illustrators are in a league of their own. Brilliant, close to the bone and pared down to the essentials of making a point with precision and concision. The December cover by Angela Harding is joyous and allegorical. A Christmas wrapper and the stuff of Yuletide dreams.
From John Bradley’s ‘boozy, floozy and woozy’ [Charades anyone?] and the ‘goose versus turkey’ illustrations by Sholto Walker [Battle of the birds] (below) to Clair Rossiter’s work on When the proof is in the pudding [all from the December issue], the poignancy of line drawing cannot be gainsaid.
On 7 January 2015, two French Muslim terrorists and brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the satirical weekly French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Fully armed, they killed 12 people.
After the publication of in 1988, Sir Salman Rushdie has assuredly paid a heavy price for his
