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Art isn't created just to please our eyes; it also transfers ideas and provokes thought on social problems. Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer has been producing satirical illustrations and cartoons for adults for decades now, highlighting the awful problems with society.

Gerhard Haderer had even faced the court for one of his brutally honest books, The Life of Jesus. It triggered violent reactions, because of the society problems discussed in it, in Europe, especially from the Catholic Church. The story culminated in 2005 when Haderer was convicted in Greece for insulting the religious community and was given a six-month suspended sentence in absentia. A few months later, however, this verdict was corrected on appeal, and Gerhard Haderer was acquitted.

The artist developed his realistic style when working as a graphic designer and illustrator for advertising agencies early in his career. It wasn't until a cancer operation in 1985 when Gerhard abandoned his commercial dreams and became a freelance caricaturist and satirical illustrator, mainly focusing on social issues. Scroll down to check out his unsettling and at times scary cartoons and vote for your favorites.

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EM
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7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you know that a couple of years ago, there were more selfie related deaths than shark related deaths?

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    stellermatt
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this happens so much at live concerts, just put the damn phone down and enjoy the experience!

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    Phil.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually even a put-on smile can lift your mood, say neuro-scientists.

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    Ola Antosik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This I do not understand. I like reading books in paper but there is nothing wrong with electronic editions. If anything, they are more eco friendly. It is still the same activity just different medium.

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    Daniel Losinger
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Timeline: Catholic Church's sex abuse scandals https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/world/timeline-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-scandals/index.html

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    Michelle Line
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, at least it looks like they're all getting along.

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    Mika N
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard it said, how ironic it is that often times today, family time is getting everyone to put down their small screens and all look at the same big screen for a while.

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    Phil.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    same with our used clothes which we graciously "donate"

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    Sarah Miller
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not seeing this as a "fast food/obesity" thing, more like a CEO or corporate leader just greedily eating funds. Fat in wealth kind of thing

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    stellermatt
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you can roll a piece of s**t in glitter, it's still a piece of s**t.

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    Jessica Postma
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chickens are bred to lay eggs over 30 times the amount of eggs they are supposed to lay. Their bodies can't handle it. A lot of chickens can't lay the eggs anymore after a while, they cook inside her body and she dies. They get sick because a lack of nutrients too. They can get a bit of nutrients back by eating their own eggs. Which they can't because people take them. Eggs are not meant for us.

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    Sarah Birrelle
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's literally about wat we do to animals to get our food. It's maniacal

    Magpie
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I saw it as what is done to chickens / all factory "farm" animals.

    Joseph Barnett
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is exactly what the egg industry does! It forces chickens to produce eggs. All male chickens will be ground up alive, suffocated, drowned, or just thrown out in the trash, exposed to the elements. A chicken can live up to 15 years, but in the factory farms the average lifespan is about 5 years. Then the worn out chicken will be slaughtered and used for canned meat products, since the 'meat' will be bruised! A chicken left to live a natural life, free ranged, only produces 3-5 eggs a year, but the industry will alter that cycle by forcing the chickens to molt and lay. Learn the facts about the egg industry, it is as corrupt as the meat & dairy industries!

    Angie Wilson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How Democrats treat the Middle Class

    David Raymond
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More a comment on factory farming, in which animals are reduced to food producing machine. A complete perversion of the chicken 's reproductive process.

    Chris Watson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many farms raise ethical, grain fed, free range birds.

    Kirsten Preston
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a very strong image, brilliant!

    Janet Lee
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what is the full name of this arwork

    Cathleen Vernon
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What we do to animals to mass-produce food.

    Lisa Brown Stimson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why torture the bird to do what it does naturally?

    Beedoo Radosevich
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not how you fix eggs! That needs to be cooked!

    Paul Eyler
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WhatGovernment is doing to the taxpayers

    Spencer Grams
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The average citizen ... mistreated and being screwed out of everything she/he has.

    Annie Bazinet
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, this one wrenches my heart too...

    Patricia Whitehead
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chicken is the taxpayer. Individual wage earners provide 60% of federal revenue. And that's before the Republican corporate tax relief!

    Dan Bohlke
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This won't work...Clearly he's no mechanical engineer...this device as drawn would twist its head off and sever the neck.

    My O My
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    This one totally made me lough

    Full Name
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    This is every adolescent male's life.

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    EM
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I thought that there would be more fish."

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    Ben S.
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He can't escape his reality, even in his day-dreams...

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    Hilliary Smith
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I immediately thought that the commando in the middle thinks in black and white, and reality is all sorts of colors.

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    Meep
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh god I'm reading this on the toilet at work

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    Çalıkuşu
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    George Orwell- Animal Farm: ''Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

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    Chris Daemon
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Context, variation on Albrecht Dürer's Praying Hands.

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    Sykz
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Enough money you can do anything.

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    Vlad Horobet
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure how many people knew this, but there is a forth monkey in this series. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and do no evil.

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    Oli Wolfe
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No!!! How will you get the ball back now!

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    earringnut
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this would be even better with teachers.

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    Lua boots
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holidays...so many people leaves at same time...so they get stuck on the road..,and they spend half of their vac waiting on the car...sad...reality

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