Australian Senator Lidia Thorpe is being criticized for a minute long tirade at King Charles who was seated after speaking at a welcome reception during his tour of Australia. Thorpe also shared a cartoon of a beheaded King Charles that quoted her “you are not our king” rant. She later deleted the post and blamed […]
Pick n Pay Clothing has partnered with South African cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) for a limited edition line of t-shirts to celebrate South Africa’s national Springboks Rugby team.From Retail Brief Africa: “When Pick n Pay Clothing asked me to get involved with a campaign expressing how South Africa’s diversity is our strength, I felt my […]
This year’s European Cartoon Award goes to Steven Lectrr Degryse (AKA Lectrr) for his cartoon of Russian opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny. The award is presented during European Cartoon Day ceremony presented by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht.Lectrr’s award winning cartoon:The European Cartoon Award, started in 2019, is dedicated to supporting and promoting […]
The Saudi government has sentenced educator and cartoonist Mohammed al-Ghamdi to 23 years in prison. Mohammed, who drew under the pen name Al-Hazza, was originally arrested in 2018 for allegedly insulting Saudi Arabia but his case was re-opened resulting in a harsher sentence that cannot be appealed.Mohammed, a Saudi citizen, briefly drew cartoons for the […]
The documentary Drawing a Line is being screened at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, focusing on illustrator and Sanitary Panels webcomic creator Rachita Taneja and the Indian government’s crackdown on dissent. Taneja was charged with contempt of court in 2020 for her critical work. The film is part of the Draw for Change series, […]
Daily New Age political cartoonist Mehedi Haque reflects on what it was like to draw political cartoons in Bangladesh during the student-led protests and the government’s violent crackdown during the 2024 revolution, which eventually resulted in the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Over the past year, people never shied away from reminding me that […]
The Walkley Foundation has announced the finalists for its Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. In the category of Cartoon of the Year, the finalists are Matt Golding, Fiona Katauskas, and Cathy Wilcox.The Walkley Award is the most prestigious honor in Australian journalism, akin to the Pulitzer Prize in the U.S. The award recognizes excellence […]
Morten Morland, who has been drawing covers for The Spectator magazine for the last 15 years, announced on Twitter that he was leaving the weekly magazine. On X/Twitter he wrote: It’s been a fabulous gig, working with great people. It’s been increasingly hard to fit the job in around my commitments for The Times, so […]
An anonymous complaint about a Mark Knight editorial cartoon published May 21, 2024 in the Herald Sun has been deemed “offensive and prejudicial” by the Australian Press Council.The cartoon (below) was drawn in response to an increase of immigration into Australia. The complaint argued that the immigrants in the cartoon were depicted as “mostly Muslims from […]
The 2024 European Cartoon Award finalists have been announced. The finalists are Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands), Steven Lectrr Degryse (Belgium) and Victor Solís (Mexico).The European Cartoon Award was started by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht in 2019 after the New York Times announced it would no longer run editorial cartoons. The purpose of the prize is to […]
Ed Maclachlan, recognized as “one of our greatest living cartoonists,” has passed away. He was 84 years old.Ed was born in 1940 in Humberton, Leicestershire. According to Lambiek Comiclopedia, he studied art at Leicester College of Art (now DeMontfort University) from 1957-1961. His first published cartoons were in the college publication Lucifer. He began submitting […]
Fifteen years after the passing of Watford Observer sports cartoonist Terry Challis, the paper is publishing a selection of his Drawn Game cartoons and has posted several of his cartoons on their website. Visit The Watford Observer to see the collection.
The Cartoon Museum in London, England, has been nominated for a Best in Heritage Award for their work with autistic young people. The international award recognizes excellence in museums, heritage and conservation. The museum runs a “Relaxed Monday” event each a month “specifically designed for children and young people with autism spectrum conditions or sensory […]
The inclusion of EWK Prize winner Mohammad Sabaaneh at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) has faced pushback due to accusations that his work contains antisemitic imagery. With less than a week until the kickoff of the 12th installment of the festival, Rob Lownie writes in UnHerd about the difficulty within LICAF board members […]
Cartoonist Pete Songi has launched a new digital magazine called The New Cartoonist. The inaugural issue is 48 pages long and features over 50 cartoonists along with interviews, articles, and animation videos. The cover was drawn by Mark Winter (AKA Chicane).Pete says the idea for the magazine dates back several years and was inspired by a short-lived UK publication called The Cartoonist. In […]