Salim Zerrouki, an Algerian living in Tunisia, cartoonist and observer of political life, became known for his satirical writing and his black humor.
In this comic, he depicts his own childhood, in the suburbs of Algiers, from 1978, the year of his birth, to 1992, when the government canceled the legislative elections which were to bring the FIS to power.
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If he paints an uncompromising picture of Algeria in the 1980s, with humor not devoid of irony, the tone is light, fresh, very funny: it is the carefree grace of childhood memories.
His mischievous drawing and his stylized caricaturist style go all out to show the burlesque side of the daily life of the middle and working classes, before and after the economic crisis which hit the country in 1986. At that time, the D system and the fatalism that prevailed turned into anger, resentment and religious exaltation.
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