From The Daily News:Two cartoonists for the popular satirical weekly Penguen have been jailed to 11 months in prison, over a satirical piece on free speech in which they were convicted of including a hidden gesture ?insulting? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Cartoonists Bahad?r Baruter and Özer Aydo?an were sued for the Aug. 21, 2014, […]
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A Nashville entrepreneur is trying to launch a weekly 6-page comic page delivered via mail.From the press release: Seeking to preserve a uniquely American art form, Nashville based media entrepreneur Logan Sekulow announced the launch of Laugh-O-Gram?, a weekly, family friendly comic strip only newspaper delivered by mail. Acknowledging the importance of grassroots support, Sekulow […]
Daryl Cagle announced that former Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Detroit Free-Press editorial cartoonist Bill Day has taken a full-time position with the Florida web site FloridaPolitics.com.Daryl writes: I was please to learn that my talented, cartoonist buddy, Bill Day, just got a full time job as an editorial cartoonist for FloridaPolitics.com. New jobs for editorial […]
CARTOONISTS- FOOT SOLDIERS OF DEMOCRACY from Cinextra Productions on Vimeo.Looks like this came out last year. Given the recent events in Europe, seems as timely now as it was then. Any one seen it?
After yet another raid and arrest, editorial cartoonist Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Zunar) is fighting back.From MalayMail:Zulkiflee, popularly known as ?Zunar?, said he is holding the police responsible for damage as the item had been kept in their custody. ?I will not tolerate this and will instruct my lawyer to take the necessary legal […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has released the organization’s mission statement outlining its purpose. AAEC President Jack Ohman tells me that even though the organization has been around for over 50 years, the recent violent events in Europe has motivated the board to declare its support for free speech and cartoonists rights around […]
Speed Bump creator Dave Coverly has a new book out called “Dogs Are People, Too: A Collection of Cartoons to Make Your Tail Wag“.From The Ann Arbor NewsThough Coverly found plenty of material, he assumed that he’d need to find a “small, boutique-y publisher” for the book. But then an editor at Macmillen threw him […]
Brevity co-creator Rodd Perry has posted a small animation he did from a recording that Mike Cohen made of a conversation he had with his father from 1985. The Brother Mike Tapes: 1985 from rodd perry on Vimeo.
From The News Journal (Delaware):Delaware’s best-known cartoonist, Jack Jurden, whose pen-and-ink drawings spanned more than six decades, has died at the age of 88. The charming and quick-penned artist, who met and drew every president from Kennedy to Carter, died quietly at his Brandywine Hundred home Tuesday night, surrounded by family and friends. Although he […]
From Cartoonists Rights Network International:Cartoonists Bahadir Baruter and Ozer Aydogan, from the Turkish satirical magazine Penguen, appeared in court last week charged with ?insulting? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The indictment relates to a cartoon placed on the front cover of the magazine last August, depicting the President meeting two officials outside his newly completed […]
Another sad news item.From the National Cartoonists Society: The NCS is sad to announce the passing of ?Berry?s World? cartoonist James O. ?Jim? Berry on Friday, March 20th at 83. After dabbling with a cartoon strip on his ship?s newsletter while serving in World War II, Jim left a career in business management in 1961 […]
A 1988 Larry King radio interview with Charles M. Schulz:Via: Mike Lynch
A French Jewish cartoonist was arrested on charges of Anti-Semitism for a cartoon he drew in 2011.More from Anadolu Agency:?The environment after the Charlie Hebdo attacks is just like post-Sept. 11. You are either Charlie, or a terrorist,? Zeon said in an interview with The Anadolu Agency. After the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., […]
Steve Breen, the Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the San Diego Union-Tribune, is one of several artists and creative individuals featured in a new documentary about the creative process called “From Nothing, Something.”Here’s the film’s description from their website:This fast-paced, funny, inspiring doc explores the common techniques, habits and neuroses that lead to breakthrough […]