EXHIBITIONS

AWARDS

COOMING SOON

EXHIBITIONS
Museum of Cartoons and Caricatures - Piazza Garibaldi‚ 1 Forte dei Marmi

«THE SATIRICAL JOURNALS FROM THE TRENCHES DURING THE FORST WORLD WAR»

From 1915 to 1918 many writers and artists in the Army used to edit satirical journals in order to cheer the troops up.

«LA TRADOTTA»
The Third Army weekly.

The weekly La Tradotta was the most well known paper among the World War One trench newspapers, each of which consisted of lampoons and reflections, poems and cartoons, satirising the military and political situation of World War One. Many of their contributors were painters, illustrators and writers who would become very famous after the War.

«MA COS'È QUESTA CRISI?»
The economical and financial crisis in more than 250 cartoons from 50 countries in the world. 

On show the works of major cartoonists such as Plantu (France), Altan (Italy), Krauze (Great Britain), Korpak (Finland), Riber Hansson  (Sweden), Jens Hage (Denmark), Tom Janssen (Netherlands), Zlatkovsky (Russia) and many others from Brazil, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Nigeria, Turkey, India...

«THE SATIRICAL ART OF MINO MACCARI'S PERIODICAL "IL SELVAGGIO" (The Savage) (1924 - 1943)».

On show the original issues and the etchings of this famous periodical which Maccari directed from 1924 to1943. The visitors will also be presented with coloured versions of these etchings which Maccari had printed in 1943.

37^th POLITICAL SATIRE AWARDS CEREMONY

The Political Satire Awards was established in 1973 in order to celebrate the best of Italian contemporary satirical literature, journalism, cartooning, theatre and TV shows. Since then it has been a growing success.