So far I haven’t seen reports of massive rioting or killings that was associated with the publishing of the original Danish Cartoons, but here is the aftermath of the Everybody Draw Mohammad Day as I can determine.» The Swedish government has closed their embassy in Pakistan “because of a threat” according to a report by […]
I didn’t think a syndicated strip would participate in the Everybody Draw Mohammad Day event, but I received an email pointing to yesterday’s Over the Hedge by T. Lewis and Michael Fry. I asked Michael if there was any hestitation to joining the event and he responded, “No. No second thoughts. I wrote two versions. […]
South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro(Zapiro) joined in the Everybody Draw Mohammad Day, and before his cartoon could go to press, the Islamic theological body, the Jamiatul Ulama tried to stop the cartoon from being published by appealing to the Johannesburg High Cout. The offending cartoon depicts the prophet lying down on a therapist’s chair, saying: […]
According to Between Friends creator Sandra Bell-Lundy, Mengxin Li has won this year’s 2010 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. She is a Film and Animation major at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Li was born in China and grew-up in Japan. She received the third place prize at the Beijing International Student Animation […]
From Daryl Cagle’s blog: As incredible as it might seem for a modern European democracy, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is suing for an apology and EUR33,000 ($43,000.00) for a political cartoon, drawn by Martin “Shooty” Sutovec for the SME Daily newspaper, that mocked the Prime Minister’s health by suggesting he didn’t have a backbone. […]
Julie Larson’s The Dinette Set is now with United Feature Syndicate. Julie left Creators Syndicate in January to pursue self syndication citing that she could “sell just as well as a syndicate, especially when it’s one’s own property. I know its going to get #1 priority.” Multiple attempts to contact Julie to ask why the […]
The New York Times reports that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has also blocked YouTube, as well as “certain pages on the Flickr and Wikipedia sites.” “Earlier we were blocking the links,” he said of YouTube, “but when content increased we had to block the whole Web site.” The ban, which also included certain pages on […]
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has issued a statement regarding the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” urging for tolerance on both sides. In the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, God states: “Invite (all) to the way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching, and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: […]
Yesterday, Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore released his latest animated cartoon entitled “Inky Al-Jihadi” depicting a Jihad on Cartoon Coorespondance Cartoon where individuals can learn how to be offended by drawings of Mohammed no matter how small or insignificant.
From CNN.com: Hewlett-Packard says it’s developing a next-generation wristwatch for the U.S. military. The printing and computer company says the watch will have a flexible display that shows maps and other strategic information to soldiers in remote combat fields. The watch’s screen will be made of plastic and it will run on solar energy, making […]
A little afternoon levity. Not a comic in the traditional sense, but this sadanduseless.com Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates comic will soon go viral in some crowds if it hasn’t already. Read all of them for a chuckle.
The Pakistani government (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) has ordered all Pakistani ISPs to block traffic to Facebook until May 31 to prevent citizens seeing the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” pages after a group of Muslim lawyers petitioned The Lahore High Court.Protests in Pakistan have reportedly already begun:In the southern city of Karachi, 2,000 female students rallied […]
Mike Rhode posts photos taken by Joe Azar at this year’s Herblock Award dinner to honor Politico’s Matt Wuerker.
The Hartford Courant caught up with Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Rick Stromoski, creator of Soup to Nutz and recorded their feelings about the digital future as presented by Apple’s iPad. Griffith says the Web has been a good platform for his work, and he’s encouraged by what he’s seen of the […]
Tomorrow is the accidentily set date for everyone to draw the Prophet Mohammed. Open discussion – is anyone participating? What are your predictions about what will happen tomorrow? A non-event day, or will it go viral causing riots in the streets. Take a position now. Tomorrow we’ll see.