From 16 to 18 November 2023, the Tâche d’Encre organisation is holding its traditional Coco’Bulles festival, “The biggest press cartoon and comic strip festival in West Africa” in Treichville, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Coco’Bulles is a forum for meetings and exchanges between press cartoon and comic professionals and their audiences. Cartoonists are given the opportunity to discuss issues relating to their profession and to exhibit their work. The event combines exhibitions, training, workshops, conferences and live cartooning.
As with the 2017, 2019 and 2021 editions, Cartooning for Peace is taking part and, counting on the presence of cartoonists Landschulz (Germany), Stellina (Taiwan), and Judith Kaluaj (Democratic Republic of Congo), is organising a round-table discussion on women in the press cartoonist industry, on 16 November at 3:30pm at the Institut français de Côte d’Ivoire :
By using simplification, humour and caricature, press cartoons help to challenge preconceived ideas and raise awareness of the major issues facing the world. In this way, it can bring about a change in outlook, and even in behaviour. But to get their message across, cartoonists resort to exaggeration, stereotypes and the use of clichés, some of which provoke outraged reactions or rejection.
Can press cartoons make claims and support causes, can they provoke criticism and exchange without contributing to the preconceived ideas they are supposed to criticise? And how can we appeal to an artist’s responsibility without restricting his or her freedom of expression?
Addressing these questions through the lens of gender issues, gender-based violence and misinformation about women, the cartoonists attempt to shed some light on the subject.
With the participation of:
Live cartooning is also planned, to bring an offbeat perspective to the various Coco’Bulles festival exchanges. The cartoonists are also taking part in workshops in schools:
