Posted on: January 11, 2016
Scottish Parliament proposes January 7 Cartoonists Day to highlight free speech
Cartoonists Rights Network International reports that one member of the Scottish Parliament is proposing that January 7, the anniversary of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, become Cartoonists day.French-born MSP Christian Allard proposed the motion that the parliament ?reflect on the events that took place in Paris on 7 January 2015 at the Charlie […]
Angouleme International Comics Festival opens Grand Prix into a write-in
From the Guardian:This week the largest comics festival in France announced its 30 nominees for what many consider the most prestigious prize in comics, the Grand Prix. Not one nominee was a woman. Usually there are at least few women on the longlist for the Angoulême International Comics Festival (known in French as the Festival […]
CSotD: One thing they aren’t is “nimrods”
Today’s Bizarro comes about week after I had one of those visits to the doctor where you have to take something and then sit around waiting for it to kick in, during which time I read a copy of “Field and Stream,” which I hadn’t read since my days as a kid in the barbershop.I’ve said […]