Bulgarian artist’s robot cartoon warned us 38 years ago
In this 1987 cartoon by Bulgarian artist Milen Radev, an engineer operates a wireless remote control to command a towering robot— but the robot’s mechanical hands grip puppet strings attached directly to the engineer himself. Who’s really in control?
The image appeared in Szpilki (Polish for “Pins”), a satirical magazine founded in 1935 by Zbigniew Mitzn…
