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The Ceasefire According To Cormac

The Ceasefire According To Cormac is a long overdue publication by An Phoblacht's own resident cartoonist and political satirist Cormac. The collection of his strips was launched by artist Robert Ballagh on Monday 2 August in the Falls Community Council.

Cormac, whose identity is as closely guarded as P O'Neill's (unless you're buying a round, that is), would only agree to be photographed with his back to the camera (many would say his best side).

In typical Cormac fashion, the booklet cuts to the quick, with ascerbic truthfulness, combining wit, political analysis and a touch of madness.

His angst-ridden figures, who stride across landscapes littered with strange geometric debris, are less generic types, more political ciphers who speculate and comment on big issues.

Cormac's cartoons have never been balanced, because Cormac does not do balance — he does the truth as he sees it.

Speaking at the launch, Irish News cartoonist Ian Knox described Cormac as "the most political cartoonist working on the island bar none".

"In the gallery of balanced versus unbalanced, committed versus uncommitted or should be committed, overdrawn versus underdrawn, funny versus unfunny and left versus right, it is not hard to work out where he stands."


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