Leon Kuhn

Leon Kuhn (1954 – 2013 [1]) was an anti-war[2] political cartoonist[3] who created topical parodies in the United Kingdom and was listed as an initial supporter of Artists against the War.[4] In 1968, when he was 14 years old, Leon won first place in the Sunday Observer's national political cartoon competition.[5] With Colin Gill in 2005 he co-authored the book Topple the Mighty "about knocking down statues of unpopular leaders".[6] The book's foreword was by George Galloway, who Kuhn helped during the United Kingdom general election, 2005.[6] Some of his work was used by Respect – The Unity Coalition from 2005 to 2008 and by the Stop the War Coalition from 2007 onwards.[7] His Statue of Liberty work was used in the film Children of Men.[8]

Selected works

Citations

  1. ↑ Bird, Chris (2013-12-20). "Leon Kuhn, anti-war and political cartoonist: 1954-2013". Counterfire.
  2. ↑ Dalton, Paisley (2008-01-07). "Anarchy Goes Etablissement". Zeitgeistworld. Retrieved 2009-11-27. two infinitely more powerful paintings by celebrated anti-war cartoonist Leon Kuhn- The Proud Parents and 3 Guilty Men
  3. ↑ Labour Research Department; Fabian Research Department (2005). Labour research 4. Labour Research Dept. p. 27. Retrieved 2009-11-27. Topple the mighty
  4. ↑ "aims". Artists Against the War. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
  5. ↑ MAD DOGS video at 40 seconds
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Stothard, Peter (2005-09-26). "WBLG: Topple the mighty". The Times. Retrieved 2009-11-27.
  7. ↑ stopwar.org.uk's search results for kuhn
  8. ↑ Children of Men (Motion picture). 2006-09-22. "STATUE OF LIBERTY" BY LEON KUHN © 2006. USED BY PERMISSION.

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