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From official biography on DeviantART, published on DeviantART website in 2006.

Carlos Latuff is a freelance political cartoonist, born in November 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Early childhood

Born into a family of 7 in Rio de Janeiro to a Brazilian father and an Argentinian mother, Carlos was the fourth child. His father was a middle class worker who was a electrician by trade, and his mother was a school teacher until she had children, which then she became a stay at home mother. Carlos excelled in art class as a young boy. At the age of 12, his parents separated after his mother moved back to Argentina to marry a Jewish man. This apparently is where Carlos started to change. He began to get into trouble at school, he was suspended several times, and he began to isolate himself by drawing.

Marriage

At the age of 34, Carlos and his soon-to-be husband, Javier, traveled to Toronto, ON where they would undergo vows for marriage. They were married at the Trinity Church in front of over 200 guests from around the world. Carlos has stated that this, "was the happiest moment of my life."

Published works

His often-controversial works have been published in DMagazine (Italy), Power of Working Class (South Korea), and other newspapers and magazines. Latuff's works have also been published on different Indymedia websites and several of his cartoons were also published on the Gush Shalom website.

In August 2006, pro-Sunni insurgent comics strips from Latuff's Tales of Iraq War series were allegedly published, along an interview, in "a Sunni magazine in Iraq".

In 2006, Latuff was placed second and won $4,000 in the Iranian International Holocaust Cartoon Competition with an image comparing the Israeli West Bank barrier with the Nazi concentration camps.

Themes

From the Forgiveness series.
File:Ariel Sharon by Latuff.jpg
From the Ariel Sharon series.

Since his trip to West Bank in 1999, Carlos Latuff has been invited by the Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy , and authored several comics about the Middle East situation.

Particularly, in his We are all Palestinians cartoon series, various groups, including Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, Black South Africans during Apartheid, Native Americans, and Tibetans in China, are all shown stating "I am Palestinian". His work called Forgiveness displays drawings of Muslims and Jews illustrating quotes from Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Victor Hugo and Voltaire.

Latuff has also made a series of cartoons that portray Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, United States President George W. Bush, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and British PM Tony Blair among other politicians as a monsters and as Nazis.

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Controversies

In 2002 the Swiss-based Jewish organization Aktion Kinder des Holocaust sued the Independent Media Center (IMC, also known as Indymedia) of Switzerland on the charge of anti-Semitism. The reason was a cartoon of Latuff's We are all Palestinians series , published in Swiss IMC website, which depicted a Jewish boy in Warsaw Ghetto saying: "I am Palestinian." The criminal proceedings were suspended by Swiss court. The criminal proceedings were suspended by Swiss court. The official judgement stated that: - Even if the observer is emotionally biased against the Jewish people with this , it is not the Jewish people as such that is being criticized, but their political behaviour towards the Palestinians. The issue is not a certain characterization of the Jews, but their stance in the current conflict. The constitutional equality of the Jews as human beings is thereby not denied. (p.2, paragraph 1.2.) - - Aktion Kinder des Holocaust stated, in its reply: - - The district attorneyship talks about "THE Jewish people", which seems to have "ONE political behaviour" towards Palestinians. The invention of a homogeneous Jewish attitude of "the Jewish people" is a manifold, scientifically proven anti-Semitic/anti-Jewish stereotype! Not only is the "Jewish people" denied pluralistic political attitudes - this view specially is the basis for the anti-Semitic frenzy of the existence of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy.

In Autumn 2006, Latuff took part in the International Holocaust Cartoon Competition sponsored by the conservative Iranian government newspaper Hamshahri. A cartoon by Latuff depicting Alan Dershowitz masturbating over the killing of Lebanese citizens, which illustrated an article by prominent anti-Zionist Norman Finkelstein, provoked further controversy.

Sources

  1. Google Cache: Letter from Latuff to fans Feb 10, 2001
  2. Power of Working Class magazine
  3. winners of the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Competition.

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