Cartooning for Peace #8

A sharp and witty entry in Gallimard's Cartooning for Peace series, this 2018 collection — Poutine Super Tsar — gathers 60 press cartoons skewering Russia's strongman leader, with a preface by Éric Chol. The cover sets the satirical tone perfectly: a caricatured Putin figure kneels adoringly before an icon-style portrait of himself rendered as a saint, complete with a golden halo and the Russian double-headed eagle emblem — political ego elevated to absurd religiosity. It's a biting, visually playful package that makes the most of cartooning as a tool for democratic commentary.