Burmese humour -- Cartoons
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | 969toons.com |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar Online Cartoon Journal" |
| Language: | | Burmese (a little English) |
| Source/publisher: | | 969toons.com |
| Format/size: | | html, jpeg |
| Date of entry/update: | | 30 January 2009 |
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| Title: | | Harn Lay's political cartoons |
| Description/subject: | | High quality, hard-hitting. See also the cartoons on "The Irrawaddy" |
| Author/creator: | | Harn Lay |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Shanland |
| Format/size: | | jpeg |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 December 2010 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | Irrawaddy Artist Honored |
| Date of publication: | | May 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | Harn Lay, The Irrawaddy’s cartoonist and illustrator, has received a grant from Human Rights Watch in recognition of his satirical cartoons targeting the Burmese military regime. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 5 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 29 August 2010 |
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| Title: | | The Joke’s on the Generals |
| Date of publication: | | November 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Laughter is a sharp weapon in the hands of Burma’s regime critics...
"BURMA is under siege and the crackdown on anti-regime monks and activists has intensified, continuing day and night. The bloodshed in Burma in September 2007 and the regime’s inadequate, heartless response to the cyclone the following May ignited worldwide anger, directed at regime leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe. Yet through it all, the callous, stubborn general remained a figure of fun, arousing mirth as well as outrage..." |
| Author/creator: | | Yeni |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 11 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Pioneers of Burmese Cartooning |
| Date of publication: | | September 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | "During the popular struggle against the British and civil war, two cartoonists entertained and provoked Burmese audiences with their fiesty sketches...
A newspaper without a cartoon is like curry without salt — U Hein Sunn, prominent Burmese cartoonist..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Zaw |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 7 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 November 2003 |
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