Szczepan Piotr Sadurski is a Polish
satirist
This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires.
Early satirical authors
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,
cartoonist
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,
caricaturist
A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures.
List of caricaturists
* Abed Abdi (born 1942)
* Abril Lamarque (1904–1999)
* Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003)
* Alex Gard (1900–1948)
* Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977)
* Alfre ...
, journalist, and the leader of the
Good Humor Party
The Good Humor Party (), is a satirical organization, founded in Poland on 28 June 2001 by Polish cartoonist and journalist Szczepan Sadurski, during the Good Humor Festival in Gdańsk. It claims to have some 3,000 members all around the world, ma ...
.
Early life and works
He was born on June 9, 1965 in
Lublin
Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...
, and graduated from art secondary school (1985). He has published more than 5,000 drawings in 200 magazines.
Sadurski is the winner of awards, including the Golden Szpilka ‘86 (prize from the magazine ''
Szpilki
''Szpilki'' (, ) was a Polish satirical magazine. It was established in 1936 by a group of lettered leftists, including Eryk Lipiński, , and (chief editor).J. Łojek, J. Myśliński, W. Władyka, ''Dzieje prasy polskiej'', Warszawa 1988, p. 103 ...
'' for the year's best drawing). He is the founder of ''Wydawnictwo Humoru i Satyry'' (Humour and Satire Publishing) Superpress (1991) editor in chief of the magazine ''Dobry Humor''.
He is also the founder and leader of the Good Humor Party–an informal, international organization for people who love
laugh
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ing (more than 3,000 members in
Poland
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and other countries). In addition, Sadurski is the owner of the Sadurski.com satirical web portal. He has been a
juror
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in many satirical and
cabaret
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competitions in Poland, as well as in
Turkey
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and
Sweden
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. He lives in Poland's capital,
Warsaw
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.
References
External links
Sadurski.comRysunki.pl
1965 births
Polish editorial cartoonists
Polish magazine cartoonists
Polish caricaturists
Polish satirists
Polish humorists
Polish male journalists
Polish draughtsmen
Living people
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