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Fine artist and satirist Brett Murray, the painter of the controversial portrait of President Zuma titled The Spear, was a special guest of africartoons at the exhibition of Spear Cartoons we curated as part of the co/MIX Day at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town last weekend.

Also at the event were africartoonists Brandan, Chip, Deni Brown, Gavin Thomson, Stent and Zapiro, whose work was on display at the exhibition and as part of africartoons' slide presentation of Julius Malema cartoons.

THE BOOK LOUNGE in Cape Town was filled to the brim with cartoonists and appreciators of their art for the launch of DON'T JOKE! The Year in Cartoons, a collection of almost 400 cartoons chronicling the past year in the life of South Africa's young democracy. And what a year it's been!

Africartoons welcomes a new South African comic strip which debuts exclusively in the Cape Times. ’The Richenbaums’ is a collaboration between the Trantaal Brothers Andre and Nathan, and their mother Charmaine, and the strip joins a growing number of indigenous strips which includes 'Madam & Eve’, ‘TJ’, 'Mama Taxi’, 'Trek Net’, 'The Biggish Five’, ‘Outstrips’,  and the offbeat 'Western Nostril'.

BY VC WILKINSON (for SA Art Times)

Incisive wit combined with skilled technique - a lethal combination and essential prerequisite for successful political cartooning.  Some of South Africa’s best political cartoonists presented their takes on reality and cartooning history at the Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe in July and August.