Congrats Andy!
You've been officially censored!
You rock all the way to Beijing! Revolución o ... what?
China is so fucked and were only beginning to understand how much

Well, after this and the recent dropping of the "Reporters sans frontières" project because of not wanting to hurt the Chinese, I guess that the days of Fabrica being a courageous, independent, outspoken communication centre are officially forgotten...

I really like this design and it certainly sucks that you've been censored. In the illustration, you used both traditional and simplified Chinese character sets, which are generally kept separate. The second character in 'China,' on Mao's t-shirt, is the simplified 'guo2,' or 'country.' Yet the first character on the other shirt, 'lai2,' meaning 'to come,' is in traditional, not used in the mainland. My question, I suppose, is why? Was this a mistake, or were you making a statement of some sort?

I want to know whether the image was 'censored' because it glorified this ignominious criminal and destroyer of Chinese culture?
Or was it because the colour of the face was somehow offensive?
Or was it the characters chosen for the shirts?
Or was it just that you had appropriated a symbol over which the Chinese government asserts ownership?
Or was it that you entered a complex cultural debate which you think you understand, but which is taking place deeply within another country, culture and political system?

You should not assume that you know why they did this ... or what they intended to achieve ...

what is all this debate on the tshirts? :) no one considered the panda one... are those 2 "C" or are those boobies? .. what ?? a panda with boobies? oh andy, you're sooooo offensive! ahahah

u mother fucker, Fred...u r so fucked!!!

Well, I think we have to consider ourself as spoiled that we have the right to live in such an open place like Europe where all we need is provocation and uglyness to get on a cover. But there exist also other places on the world and it is also a sign of tolerance and respect to research what is acceptable to publish and what is not. Did you really think Mao in front of this jolly queue of people will get through in China? It needs more than Colors Magazine to change China's system. Face it: China is different.

Yeah, China is different. It's a totalitarian state based on torture and repression.

Not that the US is any better, but I think it's time to call a spade a goddamn shovel.

i can completely understand it, living in a totalitarian state where information is completely sieved through and most information is censored and publications banned entirely. If we had such a caricature of Lee Kuan Yew- one of the forefathers of singapore, it wouldn't even have made it into the country as it would have been banned, instead of having the page ripped out.

But when you don't know anything else or different, you don't fight for 'freedom'. Yet, after living in italy for a year, I finally realise the true meaning of freedom of access to information. And now i'm back in prison, with neither pornography nor chewing gum... sigh

Love,
jules dreaming of liberty
xoxo