Everyday life of a cartoonist (24 photos)
Despite the fact that caricature is one of the most popular formats in LJ - it is relevant, does not take up much time from friends and is well quoted, there are only a couple of caricaturists on blogs. Therefore, the editors of NedoSMI could not ignore the appearance of a new star in the live journal and went to visit Alexey Iorsh, the author of “Everyday Life of Terrorists.”
- There really aren’t very many professional cartoonists who can produce drawings of the mountain with more or less frequency, and as a rule they are all in demand in the media, they have no time for blogs, few of our brethren are willing to work for free, because blogs don’t pay money. I have such an amazing coincidence - I don’t publish cartoons in the media either, and my blog is my main way of existing as a cartoonist.
- I don’t associate the birth of “Everyday Life of Terrorists” with the explosion in Domodedovo; maybe in space, in discourse, something matured, swelled and burst. I didn’t come up with them calculatedly, I just had one picture, then a second one, and they started flowing. I saw some potential in this to tell something other than terrorism. A man with an explosive on his belt, who is mortal and can be suddenly mortal, is a very good metaphor that allows us to say a lot about us. Although the form itself is frapping, the last thing I would like to talk about is terrorists.
- I was even surprised that there was no negativity at all. Some people have a misunderstanding, and not in blogs, but on “chips” or “leprosy” - yes. But I have a completely normal attitude towards this; some people do not accept the idea that terrorists can be used in a caricature, and not everyone understands it. But bloggers are omnivores, their brains are constantly being shaken, they are used to it. There are those who are accustomed to believing that posts don’t just appear; they see the “hand of the Kremlin,” a “US agent,” or something else. Just like there are just a number of people who assert themselves by shitting in comments.
- Even from such nicknames, behind which one can assume an Islamic origin, I did not see any aggression. There were attempts by nationalists to raise my work on the flag, this surprised me, but everyone understands caricature in their own way.
- I didn’t want my heroes to be of Islamic appearance: anyone can be a terrorist. Someone in the family may be a terrorist, someone on the street, at work.
- I welcome it when my LJ cartoons circulate on social networks. I'm not a defender of copyright, but I'm not a supporter of anonymous art either. And if someone puts them on a commercial resource, then at least let them indicate the authorship.
- What I like about a blog as opposed to a newspaper is that you don’t have a boss over you, a person who thinks that he can tell you what’s funny and what’s not. You little by little begin to adapt to the editors who blow your mind and the picture gets really worse. And your creativity gets worse. There are very few people who have great resilience and do not deteriorate over time. And I'm spoiled. After I left the newspaper, I didn’t draw cartoons for a very long time and tried to wash this crap out of myself for a long time.
- After the press, I worked in advertising for a long time, developing brands. And if we are talking about “terrorists” as a brand, and they are already, at the very least, a brand, then I was naturally interested in working on them. And one of the ways to support is T-shirts. I tried to sell them at the exhibition, but there was no fanaticism. Well, there came artists, fellow poor people who themselves would draw 500 of these pieces. I would love to print 10 and give them to friends, but you could only order at least 50. There was no idea to make money, I just wanted to make T-shirts.
- Now there was a terrorist attack on LiveJournal, perpetrated by them - they blew the minds of many. Now the terrorists are hiding and waiting. And where and when their next explosion will occur - only those who know everything know about it.
