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Maurice Sinet, known as Siné (born 31 December 1928 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 cartoonist
Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
.

As a young man he studied drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
 and graphic arts, earning his life as a cabaret
Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC....
 singer. After his military service he started publishing his drawings and also worked as a photo-retoucher for porn
PORN

PORN may refer to:* An abbreviation for pornography* Progressive outer retinal necrosis, a disease of the retina* Men of Porn. a San Francisco band consisting of founder Tim Moss, Dale Crover and Billy Anderson...
 magazines.. His first published drawing appeared in France-Dimanche in 1952. Siné received the Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir in 1955 for his collection Complainte sans Paroles.






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Maurice Sinet, known as Siné (born 31 December 1928 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
) is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 cartoonist
Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. Traditionally much of this work was, and still is, humorous, and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes....
.

As a young man he studied drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
 and graphic arts, earning his life as a cabaret
Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC....
 singer. After his military service he started publishing his drawings and also worked as a photo-retoucher for porn
PORN

PORN may refer to:* An abbreviation for pornography* Progressive outer retinal necrosis, a disease of the retina* Men of Porn. a San Francisco band consisting of founder Tim Moss, Dale Crover and Billy Anderson...
 magazines.. His first published drawing appeared in France-Dimanche in 1952. Siné received the Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir in 1955 for his collection Complainte sans Paroles. His series of drawings on cat
Cat

The cat , also known as the Domestication cat or house cat to distinguish it from other Felinae and Felidae, is a small predationy carnivore species of crepuscular mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin, snakes, scorpions, and other unwanted household pests....
s was his breakthrough. He then started working for L'Express
L'Express (France)

L'Express is France's first weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the United States magazine TIME....
 as a political cartoonist.

Siné's anti-colonialism caused controversy during the Algerian war
Algerian War of Independence

The Algerian War , also known as Algerian War of Independence, led to Algeria's independence from France. An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict characterized by guerrilla warfare, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians, use of torture on both sides and counter-terrorism operations by the French Army....
. He was sued a number of times, being defended by Jacques Vergès
Jacques Vergès

Jacques Verg?s is a France lawyer who has earned fame continually since the 1950s, first as an anticolonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of infamous clients from anticolonialist Algerian terrorist bomber Djamila Bouhired in 1957-1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan ....
, then a lawyer for the Algerian Liberation Front
National Liberation Front (Algeria)

The National Liberation Front is a socialist, political party in Algeria. It was set up on November 1, 1954 as a merger of other smaller groups, to obtain independence for Algeria from France....
.

In 1962 Siné left L'Express and launched his own publication, Siné Massacre, noted for its anti-colonialism, anti-capitalism
Anti-capitalism

Anti-capitalism describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes which oppose capitalism. Anti-capitalists, in the strict sense of the word, are those who wish to completely replace capitalism with another system; however, there are also ideas which can be characterized as partially anti-capitalist in the sense that they only...
, anti-clericalism
Anti-clericalism

Anti-clericalism is a historical movement that opposes religious institutional power and influence, real or alleged, in all aspects of public and political life, and the involvement of religion in the everyday life of the citizen....
 and anarchism
Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing anarchist schools of thought which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, and/or undesirable....
. On reviewing the book, Private Eye
Private eye

A private eye is a nickname for a private investigator. It may also refer to:*Private Eye, a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop...
 described Siné's cartoons as "grotesque" (9 December 1966), criticising publisher Penguin Books
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
, who subsequently removed all unsold stock and listed the title 'out of print'.

In May 1968, together with Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Jean-Jacques Pauvert

Jean-Jacques Pauvert is a French publisher, famous for publishing the work of de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of Story of O....
, he launched L'Enragé.

Siné is a great lover of jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, and has illustrated several books on jazz as well as record covers. He's a dignitary of the French Collège de 'Pataphysique.

His recent cartoons relating to Jean Sarkozy
Jean Sarkozy

Jean Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa is a regional councillor in the city of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He is the son of the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy from his first marriage, to Marie Culioli....
's marriage to Jessica Sebaoun-Darty, the Jewish heiress, has touched off a controversy, after journalist Claude Askolovitch described the article as anti-Semitic. The magazine's editor, Phillipe Val ordered Siné to write a letter of apology or face termination. The cartoonist said he would rather "cut his own balls off", and was promptly fired. Maurice Sinet have also reported a death threat posted on a site run by Jewish Defence League. The text said "20 centimeters stainless steel in the gut, that should teach the bastard to stop and think".

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  • by Sousan Hammad, CounterPunch
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     magazine, 5 August 2008