Cartoonists Rights reports that Turkish prosecutors are appealing the July 24 acquittal of cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu. Zehra had been charged with “obscenity” for a 2020 cartoon that appeared on LeMan magazine. In July a court judged that no crime was committed and acquitted her of all charges.From Cartoonists Rights: After a slow and lengthy process of […]
Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill are jointly interviewed about their collaboration on the Gil Thorp comic strip and the Death to Pachuco comic book WILLIAM SCHWARTZ: How did you get the idea to make an “anti-celebration” strip like this? RACHEL MERRILL: From what I understand, our editor Carrie Williams was the one who suggested the […]
I could do an entire day of cartoons in which Trump and Putin discuss the Ukraine war while Zelenskyy remains out of the conversation. It seems nobody in the world thinks it’s fair or right for the invader and an outside party to determine some other nation’s territory and sovereignty.I like Royaards’ piece because he’s […]