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John Darkow’s ICE cartoon bemoaned, Goofus and Gallant, #ComicsforLiam, #ICEOutComics, new NY Times Awards, Bill Suddick Speaks, and former Washington Post cartoonist Michael de Adder cartoons The WaPo.
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The Modern Schutzstaffel?
There are columns, social media posts, and cartoons comparing the current ICE organization to the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany. A letter writer objected to cartoonist John Darkow’s comparison:
The editorial cartoon featuring three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents looking for Anne Frank on Page F5 of the Jan. 18 Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline is the subject of my comments.
Cartoons generally try to poke fun at some issue by exaggerating the truth. However, in my view, this cartoon has no truth in it whatsoever and is more propaganda for leftists than anything else.
As I see it, Jews need to fear the left, not ICE, in our country today…
I believe that the cartoon’s inference that ICE agents are like Nazis is part of a propaganda campaign aimed at the president and Republicans in general. And it shows an ignorance of the history of World War II and the deeds of the real Nazis.
Goofus and Gallant
The Lincoln Journal Star received a letter with a different kind of comparison (or here):
The Goofus and Gallant comic strip teaches children about good and bad behavior. They may be instructive for those having trouble discerning good and bad in current events.
Goofus and his fellow agents have been assigned to detain rule breakers. They chase a man who escapes them by running into a donut shop and locking the door, which angers Goofus.
Gallant has joined others who are protesting the tactics and past actions of Goofus’ agency by yelling at them, taking videos, and blowing whistles, which angers Goofus even more.
Goofus is confronted by a woman protester…
#Comics4Liam
Joe Foley at CreativeBloq tells of comic artists trying to cheer a young comics’ fan:
The aggressive enforcement tactics of ICE (the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) have been thrown into the spotlight after the fatal shootings of two US citizens and the deaths of six people in detention facilities in the past month alone. There have also been harrowing scenes of families torn apart and children detained.
One recent case has spurred artists to comment on what’s happening the way they know how. When ICE detained five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian in Minnesota on 20 January, Liam was wearing a Spider-Man backpack. This detail caught the attention of comics artists, who decided they needed to respond.
New York-based Comix Action called on the comics community to create art for Liam under the #Comics4Liam hashtag, and artists didn’t disappoint.
Visit Instagram’s Comics4Liam for the gallery.
New New York Times Awards
The New York Times’ Adolph S. Ochs Award
Because they don’t get their fair share The New York Times has invented an award for them to give their underappreciated staffers. Charlotte Klein for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer feed reports (or here):
These days, it can feel like the New York Times is so dominant that it has no newspaper to compete with but itself. And now it has a new internal awards ceremony to let it do just that.
Late last year, people across the company were invited to nominate candidates for the inaugural Ochs Awards, honoring the top journalists and journalism of the year… Awards would be given in 25 categories, from Best Scoop to Writer of the Year to Rising Journalist.
I eagerly await to see who is named in the editorial cartoon and comic strip categories.
Bill Suddick Lecture
Metro Beach News tells of an opportunity to meet and greet their editorial cartoonist Bill Suddick.
Beach Metro Community News editorial cartoonist Bill Suddick will be the guest speaker at The Beach and East Toronto Historical Society’s next event on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Suddick, who has been an editorial cartoonist with this newspaper for more than 40 years, will speak about his decades of covering the East Toronto community through his cartoons and the characters in them.
Bovino? Homan? No Matter – ICE Out
From Minnesotan cartoonist Jim (Sally Forth) Keefe:
Recently joined with a number of other cartoonists from Minnesota to make some comics related to what’s happening in Minnesota since ICE descended upon us.
Another Instagram gallery of comic artists joining together for a cause.
de Adder and The WaPo
Yesterday’s report on The Washington Post cutting its own throat by ridding itself of journalists was before cartoonists had time to react to the mass layoffs, and I had to go back in time for Bezos/WaPo cartoons. I’ll let Mike cover the coming cartoons about that event, but I can’t resist spotlighting Michael de Adder‘s early quintessential entry into The Post’s self-destruction riffing on the paper’s motto.
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