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'''Ghisberto''' is an Italian political cartoonist.
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==Biography== ==Biography==

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Ghisberto is an Italian political cartoonist.

Biography

According to his website, Ghisberto studied comic illustration and worked for various publications including briefly the children's magazine Corriere dei Piccoli. He lives in Cuba. He said that at age 30, he grew tired of living off commissioned work, changed his employment and moved to the Caribbean island where he married a local woman. Unlike Alfio Krancic of the right-wing newspaper Il Giornale and Mario Improta (nicknamed Marione) of the Five Star Movement party, Ghisberto's cartoons are produced independently and the only oversight is his frequent blocking and banning from social media.

Analysis

"Post-partigiani del web" ("Online Post-Partisans"), a Ghisberto cartoon mocking the left-wing. From left to right: an obese, unhygienic man calls his opponents racists and sexists; a drug addict curses the names of God and Mary; a feminist with sagging breasts calls for gender-inclusive language. On the right, an infuriated Italian partisan from World War II says "there are people worth shooting here!" Also note a "Zecca Rossa" ("Red Tick"), a common slur for leftists, saying "Africans First!"

Ghisberto's cartoons often show sharp divides between a perceived left-wing elite and the common people: the former are portrayed as living in wealthy, gated communities and using migrants as servants, while the latter are deemed racists by the elite and portrayed as living in poverty with dangerous migrants. Migrant men are depicted in a sexualised manner, while left-wing women are shown to support migration in order to have sex with them; the migrants are also shown as wealthy, and Muslims as a fifth column. Left-wing women are drawn to be ugly with sagging breasts, while the men wear ragged clothes and stink. Pro-migrant NGOs such as Sea-Watch, and the European Union, are caricaturised as military enemies that Italy must defend itself from. While right-wing leaders such as Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini occasionally feature in a positive light, Ghisberto's cartoons vary from many of his fellow right-wing artists in that they do not endorse a leader to fight against the perceived elite. He has also made Vignette Buoniste ("Do-Gooder Cartoons"), that are sympathetic to migrants and people from third-world countries.

In July 2017, Ghisberto made a cartoon showing a wall between a "Communist beach" and a "Fascist beach". The former is full of litter, drugs, miscegenation, migrant boats and public urination and defecation. The latter – guarded by Benito Mussolini – has traditional families and gas chambers for opponents. Mattia Salvia of Vice News considered that it showed a false dichotomy between fascism and communism. According to Corrado Mordasini of the Swiss-Italian website GAS, the works of Ghisberto and Marione seek to anger more than to entertain.

Notable cartoons

In January 2017, Ghisberto received wider attention for his response to a Charlie Hebdo cartoon mocking earthquakes and avalanches in central Italy. While the French publication showed Death skiing downhill, Ghisberto showed rescue workers skiing faster and giving Death the middle finger. The image was shared by Sergio Pirozzi, mayor of the affected town of Amatrice.

In 2019, Ghisberto satirised an alleged gang rape by the fascist group CasaPound with a cartoon in which they said "Enough with the recent arrivals raping our women, we rape them first!". Both he and Alfio Krancic, who made a similar image, were attacked by the right-wing website Il Primato Nazionale.

In August 2020, Ghisberto made a cartoon comparing perceived scaremongering over four COVID-19 deaths in one day to 1,121 deaths from heart disease and cancer. The image was shared by Alberto Zangrillo, head of anaesthesia and resucitation at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, to some controversy.

References

General

Polli, Chiara; Berti, Carlo (2020). "Framing right-wing populist satire: The case-study of Ghisberto's cartoons in Italy". Punctum. 06 (02): 29–55. doi:10.18680/hss.2020.0020. hdl:11572/297240. Retrieved 28 May 2021.

Specific

  1. ^ "Chi Sono" [About me] (in Italian). Ghisberto. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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  10. "Vignette Buoniste" [Do-Gooder Cartoons] (in Italian). Ghisberto. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  11. Polli; Berti 2020, pp. 44–45 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFPolli;_Berti2020 (help)
  12. "Cosa ci dice dell'Italia del 2017 questa vignetta su fascisti e comunisti" [What does this cartoon about fascists and communists say about Italy in 2017]. Vice News (in Italian). 12 July 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  13. "Emergenza Centro Italia, il sindaco di Amatrice risponde a Charlie Hebdo" [Central Italy emergency, mayor of Amatrice responds to Charlie Hebdo]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 21 January 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  14. "Rigopiano, la risposta di un vignettista italiano allo humour nero di Charlie Hebdo" [Rigopiano, an Italian cartoonist's response to Charlie Hebdo's black humour] (in Italian). TgCom24. 21 January 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  15. "Rigopiano, la risposta di Ghisberto alla vignetta di Charlie Hebdo" [Rigopiano, Ghisberto's response to Charlie Hebdo cartoon]. La Stampa (in Italian). 24 January 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  16. Spezzaferro, Adolfo (1 May 2019). "Sciacallaggio contro CasaPound: Krancic e Ghisberto peggio di Vauro" [Attack on CasaPound: Krancic and Ghisberto worse than Vauro]. Il Primato Nazionale (in Italian). Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  17. "Coronavirus, la vignetta scettica di Zangrillo che scatena il web" [Coronavirus, Zangrillo's sceptical cartoon that stirs up the web]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 23 August 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  18. "Alberto Zangrillo, la vignetta sul Covid fa infuriare i catastrofisti del virus" [Alberto Zangrillo, COVID cartoon infuriates virus doomsdayers]. Il Tempo (in Italian). 23 August 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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