UK cartoon: Naked Sharon eats babies

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | November 27, 2003 | WorldNetDaily.com

[Jacob Kell]

A cartoon that won first prize in Britain depicts Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon eating the head of a Palestinian baby with a burning city in the background.

Ariel Sharon depicted devouring a Palestinian baby in British prize-winning cartoon

Published in the Independent newspaper of London, the cartoon was one of 35 entries in the British Political Cartoon Society's annual competition, reported the Israeli daily Haaretz.

The Cartoon of the Year competition is sponsored by the Independent.

[MEG33]

I've seen that cartoon..It was so wrong to give that inflammatory cartoonist anything but a blacklisting.

[tallhappy]

The illustration seems to be a take off on a famous painting that is very old and famous. It illustrated Rabelais' classic Gargantua and Pantagruel.

I'm not sure who painted it.

[JoJo Gunn]

http://houston.indymedia.org/uploads/goya.jpg

[MEG33]

I recall the discussion on that.I hated the cartoon.

[Brilliant]

Hitler is alive and well and living in the UK.

[Asclepius]

Hitler is alive and well and living in the UK.

I bet he drives one of those God-awful minis and drinks his beer lukewarm while watching American television.

[bernie_g]

Goya.

Steve Bell does pastiche of famous old artworks all the time. I guess the UK public has become desensitised to disrespect to politicians. Only think of Spitting Image.

[jwalburg]

As Bernie_g notes above, the model is from Goya. The original painting is called "Saturn Devouring His Children."