Afghanistan.
داستان مصور
Afghanistan
1968
داستان مصور
Afghanistan has little comics publishing, and its graphic tradition lives mainly in press satire and political cartooning.
The Kabul weekly Tarjuman, founded in 1968 around the figure Kaka Tarjuman, was the country's first paper devoted to satire. From the 1980s, through decades of war, cartoonists such as Hozhaber Shinwary, Abdul Samay Hamed and Bashir Bakhtiari worked under threat or in exile, and after 2001 foreign donors paid for educational comic books for Afghan children.
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Artists from Afghanistan in the archive.
Comics from Afghanistan in the archive.
Tarjuman, the earliest comic from Afghanistan in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Afghanistan began.
داستان مصور
Afghanistan in 3 chapters
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Afghanistan.
داستان مصور
3 chapters
Chapter 1
1968
to 1977
Tarjuman
1968
to 1977
Chapter 01
Tarjuman
Ali Asghar Bashir Harawi and Abdul Rahim Navin launched the satirical weekly Tarjuman in Kabul in 1347 of the Iranian calendar, which began in 1968. Built around the character Kaka Tarjuman and linked to Iranian satire papers such as Tawfiq, it trained a generation of satirists and ran until 1355, the year 1976 to 1977.
1980
to 2001
Chapter 02
War, prison and exile
Hozhaber Shinwary drew provocative cartoons from the 1980s, braving communist prisons and threats from warlords. Abdul Samay Hamed founded the underground paper Salam in Mazar-i-Sharif in 1985 and fled to Denmark in 1998, while Bashir Bakhtiari began drawing in the early 1990s and Sayed Abbas Kawsari worked with the House of Caricature in Isfahan, Iran, after the Taliban took Mazar-i-Sharif.
2001
to today
Chapter 03
After the Taliban fell
Kawsari returned in 2001 to draw for the Kabul paper Andisha-e Naw, and Hamed came back in 2002, co-founded the magazine Telaya and contributed to the satirical paper Kalak-e-Rhaastgoy while drawing cartoons. USAID donated six Meet Yassin and Kaka Rawoof comic books on citizens' rights, handed out in Kandahar from December 2007, and Afghan Commandos comics were given to schoolchildren.
The comics to know
- Tarjumanترجمان1968 · comics magazineAli Asghar Bashir Harawi and Abdul Rahim Navin. Kabul satirical weekly built around the character Kaka Tarjuman.
- Meet Yassin and Kaka Rawoof2007 · comic book seriesCoalition information programme, donated by USAID. Six comic books on children's rights and duties as citizens.
- Afghan Commandoscomic book seriesCoalition information programme. Comic book about Afghan Commandos protecting villagers from the Taliban, handed out in schools.
The people to know
- Abdul Samay HamedJournalist and political cartoonist, founder of the underground paper Salam in 1985.
- Hozhaber Shinwaryهژبر شينواریCartoonist active since the 1980s despite prison and threats.
- Bashir Bakhtiariبشیر بختیاریBorn 1971Caricaturist whose work has been shown at festivals abroad.
- Sayed Abbas Kawsariسید عباس کوثریBorn 1969Writer and cartoonist for the Kabul paper Andisha-e Naw after 2001.