How dangerous is humor and can drawings also be weapons?

Lecture by cartoonists Aseem Trivedi (India) and Lectrr (Belgium)

Indian cartoonist and activist Aseem Trivedi publishes his work on the internet to denounce corruption. In 2011, he was sentenced to prison for a cartoon insulting India's national symbols.

Lectrr makes drawings for the newspaper De Standaard every day. He was regularly threatened because of his cartoons.

Both cartoonists are members of the international organization 'Cartooning for Peace', which defends respect for culture and freedom through humour.

Shouldn't a world in which cartoons, political drawings and cartoons are freely created and published be self-evident?

Aseem Trivedi and Lectrr discuss the importance, power and powerlessness of cartoons together with Steve Michiels.Steve is a teacher, artistic researcher and cartoonist. He is working on a doctoral study on (self)censorship at Luca.