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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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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Mika N
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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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Sarah Miller
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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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Ron Kendrick
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He doesn’t even take a salary as President, he donates every check. He didn’t need to be President. He’s already a billionaire. He only ran, because of how his predessor screwed our country up, snd Hillary would have been another four years, and would have the the final nail in the coffin. If Hillary had won, we.’d never heard about the politicized/weaponized deep state.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You think he'd be able to afford organic vegetables and a personal trainer, the fat bastard.

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Paula Cohen
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I'm not sure you're aware of this, but Donald recently signed a bill - after a little more than a year in office, that is providing higher wages to people in the United States, and helping corporations to give raises, bonuses, and hire greater numbers of people. Whereas Donald's predecessor presided over a nothing economic recovery for 8 bloody years. But don't let any facts get in the way of your theory.

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Joyce Stewart
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of that guy....you know the orange one with the funny hair.

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Donna Proksell
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean the guy thst worked his a*s off to get where he is today. Who loves his country so much that he is willing to be torn apart day after day by people like you, jsut to try to make things better.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unchecked greed? I don't think people are anymore greedy than they ever were, they just have unlimited resources/capital to consume while before there was a finite supply.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks a LOT like a certain Australian politician, who also had a huge private company of something.

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Lisa Jommen Daveley
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Only when the last tree has died, and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.” - American Indian proverb

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Alan Mackay
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the inability to satisfy the greed of the capitalist monster.

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Matt Lomax
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Corporate greed banks getting fatter off of their customers!

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Ben Clarkson
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be number one. Note that he's using a plunger. This is because corporate greed has clogged the economy-- by gorging on all the money that should be going to middle class growth and middle class spending .

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Steven Caballero
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m seeing this as a modern take on the gluttony during the times of the roman and Greek empires. Back then after forging on food and wine they’d purge using a feather to make them gag and throw up just so they could continue their greed. Modern day fat cats are just as greedy.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like a comment : 'You think he'd be able to afford organic vegetables and a personal trainer, the fat bastard.'

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Rebecca McCarthy
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His artwork is amazing and the messages about technology are important. It is not so much that technology is bad or wrong, but that we allow technology to use us (technological determinism), rather than taking control over the tech so it remains a tool rather than a way of life. Powerful messages all.

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Alberto Lopez
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just got his share of the 65 billion tax cut....he'll be s******g jobs and wage-rises very soon...

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Michelle Castiglioni
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the implication here is that he'd eat the money before passing along the wealth to the workers. That's my take.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In some countries, being fat is a sign of wealth. It means you have extra money to buy extra food.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

GEZ in Germany (aka Rundfunkgebühren der Öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten)

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Ethan Hunter
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem with this type of fast food is that he is eating the more expensive bills, when in reality, the garbage fast food is <5 notes usually.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s really not fast food it’s portraying, it’s the 1% “fatcat” businessmen that keep all the wealth for themselves...

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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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6 years ago DotsCreated 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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