In 1960 humorist Georges Bernier, author François Cavanna and comic artist (and artistic director) Fred Aristidès began publishing the satirical magazine
Hara Kiri, which attacked the French establishment, including politicians, the government and Catholic Church. In 1961 and 1966 it was temporarily banned by the French Government.
The magazine's covers were often tasteless, NSFW, "
famously perverted, bizarre and highly creative and at the time, and in fact even by today's standards in a league of their own."
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posted by zarq
on Dec 4, 2012 -
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