Europe is facing a very serious increase in Covid-19 contaminations (on average, 100,000 new contaminations per day), and is indeed entering the dreaded “second wave”.
Some countries are partially reconfining regions (Netherlands, Spain, Portugal), others are establishing a curfew (France, Germany), announcing the closure of bars and restaurants (United Kingdom, Netherlands, Spain) or are already closing schools (Czech Republic, Northern Ireland) ...
Health measures which, to avoid the congestion that hospitals experienced during the first wave, constrain social life and above all, slow down the recovery of an economy already at half mast, by further widening inequalities.
Health measures which seek above all to avoid, as best they can, the catastrophic scenario of a total reconfinement of the population.
"The starry Night"
For Cartooning for Peace, the American cartoonist Ed Hall has revisited "The Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh.
Instead of the city of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, it is the European capitals that are represented at night and the stars of the Dutch painter have been replaced by the coronavirus.
For twenty years, Ed Hall has brilliantly built his reputation as a cartoonist.
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Florida in 1986, he was already publishing at the time in The Alligator, the university newspaper.
He then worked for various weeklies in the Jacksonville area and eventually became a regular cartoonist for The Baker County Press weekly in Macclenny, Florida.
Over the past eleven years, he has won 9 Florida Press Association Awards, 3 newsmaker awards, and several fine art awards.
Ed Hall has also received the prestigious Excellence in Journalism Award from the Florida Press Club 3 times.
He has also published two collections "Code Red" (2003) and "diversions" (2006).
Ed Hall's work is distributed by Artizans.
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
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