= 27 July 2024 =

Weekly Single Page of Cartoonmag / No 12

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NO:12 , Saturday, 27 July 2024

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leaden stars

Abbas Naaseri / The Rise of a seventeen-Year-Old Phenomenon in the European Championship, named "Lamine Yamal" prompted me to put these words on paper. This seventeen-year-old Spanish player, still a high school student, has suddenly gained worldwide fame overnight. He has become a star in the football world, and people from all corners of the globe now know his name. His name is on everyone's lips, and he is receiving numerous tempting offers from clubs around the world and even advertising companies.

A star has shone and, its brilliance will continue. A star that is set to bask in fame and fortune for the rest of his life, just like the stars before him. He will likely retire by the age of thirty, more or less. Then he will embark on a new phase called coaching , perhaps even more dazzling. The brilliance and light of these stars will endure even after their death.

But before Football, Star-Making began with the Film and Cinema Industry. The public’s enthusiastic reception of the emerging phenomenon of cinema led to the overnight rise of wealth-generating stars who, before entering the world of cinema, lived ordinary lives like everyone else.

"Marilyn Monroe" spent her childhood in an orphanage and worked in a factory during World War II. However, with the films "As Young as You Feel" and "Monkey Business" (1951 and 1952), she gained global fame and became a movie star.

"Sylvester Stallone" was a lion cage cleaner who shone brightly in the film "Rocky" and became even more globally famous with "John Rambo," turning into one of the highest-earning stars in the world.

"Brad Pitt" was a worker in chain stores and shone with his presence in cinema, continuing to be one of Hollywood's most lucrative stars todays. There are many other examples like these in cinema and sports.

However, in contrast, some greats emerged in the world of cartoons and spent their entire lives creating cartoons that helped make life and the world better, but they never became stars. Perhaps, on the surface, their works did not attract as many audiences as cinema and football, or maybe the media and investors were not interested in investing in and highlighting these artists.

However, we have often witnessed movie and sports stars using the works of these artists to convey their messages on social media, often without mentioning the names of the artists.

In visual arts, stars throughout history have lived in anonymity and poverty, with only a handful of painters gaining fame in the last years of their lives, which can be said to be too late compared to a seventeen -year-old.

Perhaps names like "Van Gogh" and "Picasso" are known to people around the world, but among the general public, even after the death of great cartoon stars, names like "Claude Serre","Topor","Sempé,""Quino", "Mordillo","Yuriy Kosobukin","Rumen Dragostinov","Kambiz Derambakhsh", and others are not remembered.

Cartoonists, despite shining in one or a hundred major festivals, still do not become stars. Throughout their lives, their fellow citizens and neighbors might not even recognize them, and they must create and compete for survival until death. In contrast, the approach in cinema and football is the opposite.

Without cartoons and caricatures, the world would undoubtedly be a darker place, and it is the cartoonists who, through their works, force people to smile at the pain and suffering, making life gentler for them. Cartoons added color to our black -and- white world, but the cartoonists themselves lived in black and white until the end, often retreating to solitude to create cartoons for their thoughts, fantasies, and world.

Cartoons did not reach the peak of the money-making industry, or perhaps it can be said that the capitalist society did not support cartoons in creating phenomena. Cartoons and cartoonists are not just stars; rather they are the brilliant sun whose light has been obscured by the spurious glow of the stars of the capitalist world. The stars of cartoons, although bright and illuminating the path of life, have remained without light like leaden stars in Today's world. A world without cartoons and cartoonists, without art, is the same hell that has been promised. I, for my part, thank these eternal stars and hope that together we can find a way for this light to be seen...

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