Today I would like to share with you a website which I
recently did find out. The link is here; http://www.donquichotte.org
Don Quichotte is a monthly humor magazine based in
Stutgart, the magazine was founded by Erdoğan Karayel . Karayel was born
in Istanbul and also graduated from Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty there
and later he moved to Germany. To me he has some interesting and creative piece
of cartoons, you may also check them out both from his personal website. What is
interesting in both websites is that they come out in three different language
options as; English, German and Turkish.
In an interview with Karayel he was explaining his
initial aim of creating a bilingual magazine such as DQ was to’ introduce
German humor to Turks in Germany and Turkish humor to Germans’. Although to him
this was the initial aim what turned out was ‘because of the cartoons'
universal style’, it wasn't stuck to the boundaries of a single country but
rather get widen.
Karayel thought, "Why can't Don Quichotte be the
magazine of ali migrant cartoonists, a platform that brings together the
cartoonists who end up spending their lives in foreign countries?" DQ turned out to be a platform for migrant
cartoonists but more than this it also accomplished another important status
which was ’to unite cartoonists around the world on specific issues occupying
the world stage’.
Some
of the previous features of DQ were entitled as; ‘Double Citizenship Crisis’, ’50 Years Together’,
‘We Couldn’t Get Used to Life with Euro’, ‘ Violence Has Bounced to Germany too’,
‘Integration and Assimilation’ etc. There
were also issues about Hurricane Katrina, Israeli invasion in Palestine, etc.
Also some carton contests and later exhibitions were
held. So it wouldn’t be wrong to say that DQ performs as both and online and
offline social arena for its audience which is professional cartoonist around
the world, migrants of Turkish origin in Europe- mostly Germany and also for
some Europeans.
I’m not really very much sure of the copy right issues
but I’ll be posting some of the relevant cartoons. If you enjoy you may check
more of it from here.
I guess someone will let you know if there's a copyright issue :-) but then I imagine that Karayel would appreciate the publicity, especially given that pdfs of his print magazine are available on his website! Very interesting project. Cartoons are a great way to comment on the world. It's said that humor doesn't translate well, but the critical politics of the cartoons do translate at least.
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