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Peter Bardy, Editor-In-Chief Aktuality.Sk: «We Have Become Tougher» Peter Bardy, editor-in-chief aktuality.sk: «We have become tougher» In-house journal December 2018 «Economist» cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher Pen Power CONTENTS 4 «I want to fire all cannons.» American Kevin Kallaugher has been drawing cartoons for «The Economist» in London for more than forty years. DOMO visited him in Baltimore. 16 18 12 Frank A. Meyer in 75 keywords Ringier’s most famous journalist will celebrate his 75th birthday in January. Karl Lüönd encapsulates FAM’s life in 75 keywords. 16 Focus on Ringier The best press photos of the last quarter. 18 «We have become tougher.» Nine months have passed since the murders of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. Now, Peter Bárdy, editor-in-chief of «aktuality.sk», is publishing a book about the couple. 22 AR is coming – slowly Augmented Reality will change the way we see and experience things forever. The technology’s breakthrough is not happening (quite yet). 25 Outstanding! The winners of the Ringier Swiss Awards 2018. 26 Stay chill If you want to interview Mike Horn, you have to wait till he completely trans- forms into a human being, but that might take a while. 28 Finally Publisher Michael Ringier on the thing that catapults us to the highest levels of politics and the business world. 29 My Week – Povilas Kytra A week bursting with activity – Povilas Kytra, CEO of CV Keskus. 30 1,000 stories with two fingers Anniversary: Thomas Kutschera / Recommended reading by Marc Walder 4 Cover photo: Peter Lueders Cover illustration: Kevin Kallaugher New in DOMO: Augmented Reality 1 Download the free app Publishing information «Ringier AR» for iOS + Publisher: Ringier AG, Corporate Communica- Android. tions. Executive Director: René Beutner, CCO, Dufourstrasse 23, 8008 Zurich. Contact: domo@ 2 ringier.ch Editor-in-chief: Alejandro Velert. Contributors: Ulli Glantz and Markus Senn (visual Open the «Scan» realization), Vinzenz Greiner, Karl Lüönd, Adrian option in the main Meyer. Translators: Gian Pozzy (French), Claudia Bodmer (English), Ioana Chivoiu, (Romanian) menu. Proofreaders: Peter Hofer, Regula Osman, Kurt Schuiki (German), Patrick Morier-Genoud (French), 3 Claudia Bodmer (English), Lucia Gruescu Hold the camera over (Romanian). Layout/Production: Zuni Halpern. the image marked Image Editing: Ringier Redaktions Services Zurich. Print: Ringier Print Ostrava. No portion 12 and click «Scan». may be reprinted without the editor’s permission. 26 Circulation: 10,000 copies. DOMO is published in German, French, English and Romanian. Photos: Rolf Neeser, AFP, Geri Born, Sebastian Devenish, Peter Lueders DOMO – December 2018 | 3 KAL KAL «I want to fire all cannons» Cartoonist Kevin «KAL» Kallaugher has been drawing cartoons for the British magazine «The Economist» for 40 years. And for once, he has done it for DOMO, adding his characters to this issue’s cover design. A conversation with the American artist on the power of cartoons, satire in times of Trump and his favorite politician’s hairstyle. Interview: Adrian Meyer Photos: Peter Lueders One against all and all against one: Kevin Kallaugher (right) brandishing his pen against the characters he has created. In the first row, from left to right: Leonid Brezhnev, Vladimir Putin, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Deng Xiaoping, Alan Greenspan and Hosni Mubarak. 4 | DOMO – DecemberDezember 2018 DOMO – December 2018 | 5 KAL INSIDE: AN ESSAY ON THE SUBURBANISATION OF THE WORLD Technology Quarterly Shinzo Abe’s last chance Boost your business with a drone P.D. James, queen of the sleuths DECEMBER 6TH–12TH 2014 Economist.com Our books of the year Sheikhs v shale The new economics of oil evin Kallaugher, 63, signs his Mr. Kallaugher, you once said you were One of Kevin only get one shot per week. It has to a debate. Still, if a cartoon is really What drives you? «Satirists are in particular, was really stupid. At K cartoons KAL. During the video like a six-year-old kid with a crayon. Is Kallaugher’s more hit the bullseye. good, it can crystallize a debate in I regard myself as a columnist. society’s the time, a massive hurricane was interview via Skype, he is sitting at his that still the case? than 140 covers for a nutshell. The Renaissance painter I know it’s really hard for me to sheepdogs» says threatening the city of Baltimore. desk in his Baltimore home grinning Kevin Kallaugher: Ha! In my car- «The Economist»: That’s not easy. and inventor of the cartoon, Anni- change my readers’ minds. But I can Kevin Kallaugher. So, I sketched the huge chaos and broadly at the reporter. He’s sporting toons, I always try to conjure up the Sheikhs v shale, I just want to do my best, because I bale Carracci, once said that a good make them think. I can challenge He has been destruction. Only, the storm veered a shirt printed with colorful bubbles playfulness with which a six-year- encapsulating the feel very uneasy about the direction caricature is more true to life than them and sometimes even trick working for the off one day before publication. (a tribute to the arcade video game old masters everyday life. But all oil duel between in which our society and democracy reality itself. them. I don’t just want to moan British «Economist» Nothing happened. But the cartoon «Puzzle Bobble») and – of course – his the things that happened in the past Saudi Arabia and are moving. But that is the fire that about everything going down the without a contract had already been printed. That was trademark mustache. KAL is bursting two years do make me feel very old. the U.S.A., who are drives me. I wake up every day ready Why are cartoons so effective? drain anyhow. That’s no help to for over 40 years. really embarrassing. with energy and curiosity. At the end on their way to to fight for our society. A cartoon can be consumed instant- anyone. I want to change society for «They just call every of the interview he surprises the inter- Has it become harder to be playful? becoming the ly and easily. It is incredibly direct. the better. week and ask for a Where do you find your ideas? viewer by demonstrating another Everyone thinks I’m having the time world’s largest What is making you uneasy? It can break down preconceptions by drawing.» I’m working all the time. Every talent – ventriloquism: He suddenly of my life as a cartoonist. But my oil-producing Right now, we can see history being means of humor. If people can laugh What was your most important car- minute. The radio is always on, so pulls out a fuzzy green hand puppet work has become harder. Anyone country thanks to made before our eyes. There is a sea at something, they’re open to new toon? is the TV. I surf a lot and, of course, and bows out of the conversation on a can be a satirist today, thanks to fracking. change happening in world politics. ideas. Humor is the sugar coating There is one cartoon that is timeless read the paper. I work like a journal- laugh. social media. That’s fantastic and Being part of that debate as a satirist that makes it easier to swallow a and that people still ask me to put ist, asking a lot of questions. Any healthy for a democracy. But for me feels enormously important. My bitter pill. on mugs or T-shirts on a weekly thought can become a cartoon. Even as a professional it presents a chal- four decades as a cartoonist have basis. It’s actually quite harmless, a conversations with friends can turn lenge. I can’t make simple jokes any prepared me very well for this mo- Your job is to ridicule powerful people. cartoon about the stock market I did into something. more, they are easy pickings. Also, ment. Now I want to fire all cannons. Are you a malicious person? in 1989. The cartoon with the great- people are much more thin-skinned I work using tough love. Cartoons est direct impact was one I did for How do you create your cartoons? nowadays. As a cartoonist, I’m mov- What can cartoons still achieve now- are negatively connotated. So, the Baltimore Sun. The mayor once I sit at my desk, drawing sketch ing in a minefield of sensitivities. adays? I’m using a negatively connotated told me, years after his resignation, by sketch. My drawings are very A hundred years ago, cartoons were means to improve society. Satirists that one of my cartoons made him detailed, like overloaded works We’re drowning in news. How do you the central visual element of a news- are society’s sheepdogs. We drive change his mind about a law. of art. I make about ten sketches, choose your weekly subject? paper. Today, they make up only a the herd ahead of us in the direction developing ideas on paper. I think by I try to take a step back from the tiny part of our media consumption. we want. If necessary, we nip some Is there a cartoon you regret? drawing; it’s a kind of conversation noise. Especially with The Econo- As cartoonists, we are no longer the of them in the butt. I’m sure I screwed up some of my with myself on paper. I keep adding mist. I’m like a sniper that way – I most important commentators in 8,000 cartoons. One from 2006, more detail. At some point, after 6 | DOMO – December 2018 DOMO – December 2018 | 7 KAL August 2017: KAL cartoon after US Struggling for a nuclear deal: Self- Famous: The Statue of Liberty and Uncle President Donald Trump defended obsessed Barack Obama with newly Sam jointly mourning after the attacks right-wing extremists marching in elected Iranian President Hassan on New York on September 11, 2001.
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