Obi's Nightmare
December 11, 2017 6:31 AM Subscribe
Ramón Esono Ebolé is a cartoonist from Equatorial Guinea who has been jailed by the state since September for the publication of a graphic novel satirizing Equatorial Guinea's dictator, Obiang Nguema. "Obi's Nightmare" imagines Obiang forced to live as an ordinary Equatorial Guinean, "A sort of gleefully gross-out Christmas Carol with a serious moral message about the damage corruption had caused." You can read the graphic novel online (and here's an excerpt, translated to English). You can also play Obi's Nightmare, the game! This year, Ebolé was the recipient of the Courage in Cartooning award from the Cartoonists Rights Network International.
This is an amazing and horrifying post about something I didn't know anything about before.
I wish I had something to say, because it deserves comment, but I'm at a loss as to what to say, or do, except condemn both the government there and my own government for supporting it.
posted by sotonohito at 12:26 PM on December 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
I wish I had something to say, because it deserves comment, but I'm at a loss as to what to say, or do, except condemn both the government there and my own government for supporting it.
posted by sotonohito at 12:26 PM on December 11, 2017 [1 favorite]
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