{"id":103288,"date":"2019-09-20T10:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=103288"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:28","slug":"the-tight-rope-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/09\/20\/the-tight-rope-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The tight rope act"},"content":{"rendered":"

The illustrators of ikRotterdam (IRotterdam) provide monthly comments on what they encounter on Erasmus University campus. How does this illustrators collective perceive illustrations and cartoons nowadays?<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn our illustration, you can see a tightrope walker using a long pencil to keep balance. It\u2019s a reference to how sensitive political cartoons have become. Media outlets like The New York Times have even quit publishing them altogether\u201d, says Marc Kolle. Together with Evalien Lang and Ferry van Steijn, Kolle forms the drawing collective ikRotterdam. Every month, they offer their perspective on what they see on campus in a cartoon.<\/p>\n\n\t

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