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David Rowe
Unusually for David, there is no title to this cartoon. It is not needed. At a time when thousands of women were marching in the streets protesting the surge in homicides, and a national crisis was declared by the government, he creates an image of women’s solidarity against a confronting dark and bloody background. This is a masterly portrayal of the angry mood that mobilised these public protests.
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