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The true story of Ersin Karabulut, a famous comic artist, and his journey from
the underprivileged suburbs of Istanbul to the heights of publishing and the
satirical press. This is how he lived, sometimes on the front line, dealing with
the upheavals and political turmoil of his country, while Turkey slowly transitioned
from a democracy to an authoritarian regime.
We don’t know much about this great country straddling two continents,
Europe and Asia. Ersin Karabulut paints a portrait of Turkey torn by deep
political and societal differences, whose recent history is made up of coups
d’états, hopes, disillusionment, and dramas. How are the basic freedoms that
were thought to be fundamental human rights being slowly attacked, denied,
and eroded?
This autobiographical account also shows how Karabulut became a famous
and recognized cartoonist, and how without any embellishment or complacency,
he learned to tell a story, design a cover, and finally, how he is faced
with Erdogan after a cartoon published in his newspaper…
