The art of destruction

Top newspaper cartoonists and artists express their views on the Hunghom Peninsula demolition: political cartoonist Zunzi (above) paints a greedy developer holding gold refined from a machine swallowing the buildings and spewing waste; Malone (below), whose satirical cartoons regularly appear in local Chinese-language newspapers, portrays developers as a demon driller digging into the Earth for profits; freelance illustrator Peter Ng (left) shows a developer putting on a dollar-sign cap as a building bleeds; artist Ah chung (below left) portrays happy and sad globes, symbolising the struggle for the environment