Cartoon by Martin Perscheid. Translation: "The government explains politics to children." - "Democracy means that you work your entire life to pay off government debts you didn't want."
Martin Perscheid is an award-winning German cartoonist. Born in Wesseling, he has been publishing cartoons in German newspapers and magazines since 1994. His features, that are sometimes sequential, appear under the title 'Perscheids Abgründe' since 1996. Lappan Verlag has been publishing book collections with his work since 1995.
Perscheid drew a homage to Robert Crumb in the collective book 'A Tribute to Robert Crumb' (Éditions 52, 2013).
His work was an influence on Quirit.
Gag by Martin Perscheid. Nuclear power plants in Ukraine, Japan and Germany are compared. In Ukraine, the employees are ordered to go into the plant and clean up the mess. In Japan, the same happens and the employees consider it a honor. In Germany, however, the employees decide to simply call in sick, with one of them remarking that he doesn't need to, "since I still have the rest of my vacation."