Haiti: a new breed of cartoon

January 21 2012

Haiti recently held a memorial service in its capital, Port-au-Prince, remembering the over 300,000 people that perished in the near biblical destruction wrought by the earthquake of January 12 2010.

For one day – and one day only – the world’s attention was suddenly back on Haiti. International media outlets scrambled to publish the same figures about half the promised aid being delivered and the half million people still living in tent cities all over the capital.

But for Matt Bors, editor at internet comic publishers Cartoon Movement, these stories – largely based on interviews or statistics from international NGOs – lack one essential ingredient, a truly local perspective.