Atomic Reactions | Cartooning Society: How to Draw Political Cartoons

Studium Generale TU Delft

Join this political cartoon drawing workshop with cartoonist Maarten Wolterink and get your statement on a controversial topic on paper.

TU Delft Library

Atomic Reactions

From unbridled optimism to the public’s skepticism and back again
7 March 2022 – 3 June 2022

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Studium Generale TU Delft, X and TU Delft Library

Cover image: copyright Maarten Wolterink.This workshop is a collaboration between X, TU Delft Library and Studium Generale.Expressing an opinion on a controversial topic is not always easy. But humor or satire go a long way and make it easier to organise an open discussion on any topic. This very much applies to the nuclear science discussion in the Netherlands.The public’s opinion on nuclear subjects has an eventful past in the Netherlands. Nuclear energy, science and weapons are much discussed and disputed topics in media. Many political cartoons have been drawn about it in the past decades, as you can see on display in the current exhibition Atomic Reactions at the TU Delft Library.To complement this exhibition, we challenge YOU to try and represent your thoughts through drawings. So join this political cartoon drawing workshop with professional cartoonist Maarten Wolterink and get your ideas on paper too.WorkshopThis cartoon workshop will bring out the artist in you. Half of it we focus on drawing techniques and ways to get ideas for cartoons. Then it&#x27;s time to take the next step: telling the joke or making a statement on the topic with a few lines and speech bubbles. Spoiler alert: you do not really have to master drawing to be a cartoonist. It does help though ;-).Maarten Wolterink - CartoonistMaarten was born in The Netherlands in 1964. After a few years at the Willem de Kooning academie of arts in Rotterdam he started working as an independent cartoonist in 1992. Since then he has worked for several Dutch (regional) newspapers of which the collabaration with the Leidsch Dagblad even dates from 1997. His work has been in/on France 24, Le Monde, Washington Post and Trouw. He also does live stand up cartooning and gives workshops.Atomic ReactionsThis workshop is part of the TU Delft Library project Atomic Reactions. It consists of an exhibition, lectures, workshops and a film screening and discussion. In Atomic Reactions we aim to untie the messy knot formed around this topic. How was the imaging and public opinion on nuclear energy formed and how did it change during the past decades? Atomic Reactions is part of TU Delft’s programme for its 180th lustrum. The theme for this lustrum year is: energy transition.

Cartoonist Maarten Wolterink

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