A new 52-page report documents a troubling rise in threats against cartoonists worldwide has been published. The report finds threats are extending beyond arrests, imprisonment and censorship to include legal harassment and prolonged court battles. It also raises awareness that these threats are not longer confined to authoritarian regimes but are increasing in free-speech friendly […]
We are excited to announce the complete Comic Strip of the Day archives is now under one roof! As regular readers know, Mike Peterson has been posting his daily column here since 2018. Starting in 2010, he posted on an older blog platform. An end of service announcement gave us an opportunity to migrate Mike’s […]
Last April we reported that Solidarity and AfriForum had filed a complaint with the Press Council South Africa against the Daily Maverick after a Zapiro cartoon was published that suggested that AfriForum and Solidarity were claiming there as a genocide of white farmers in South Africa. The Deputy Ombudsman initially ruled against the paper, but […]
Italian activist/artist Gianluca Costantini will be attending and live-drawing this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) to distill complex geopolitical issues into a “visual language that can engage a wider audience.” This year’s MSC will be held February 13-15. Over a thousand dignitaries and heads of state will attend. This is Gianluca’s second MSC. He hopes […]
Croatian cartoonist Damir Novak was shot and killed by a neighbor after an alleged years-long property border dispute came to a deadly end on February 6. The neighbor committed later committed suicide. Damir was 66.Damir’s first cartoon was published in 1982 in the weekly Međimurje. In the following years he became one of the most prominent […]
At the close of this year’s Le Grand Off, the festival awarded the Prix Charlie Schlingo to French cartoonist Guillaume Bouzard for his album Les Vacances chez Pépé-Mémé. The album is described as a short, gag-driven comic about childhood holidays with grandparents, rendered in Guillaume’s trademark crude, elastic offbeat drawing style.The other prize of the night: The “Couilles […]
If you think that headline is confusing, buckle up. Today, on the first day of the new indie Angoulême festival, Le Grand Off (organized to replace the canceled 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival), the Association FIBD, along with disgraced 9e Art+ festival manager Franck Bondoux, announced they will sue the Association for the Development of […]
Two Cuban cartoonist, illustrators: Mary Esther Lemus and Camila Ramírez Lobón, are two of the ten recipients of the Cuban Migrant Arts Resilience Fellowship by the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC). The fellowship supports exiled Cuban artists with a financial grant, mentorship, and networking to help artists rebuilding their professional lives abroad. This is ARC’s […]
Alarmed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement impact in their communities, Minnesota cartoonists have launched an effort to spread the word about ICE’s abuses and to call on other artists to share what they are witnessing in their own communities.The seed of this movement came from graphic novelist K. Woodman-Maynard after she created an editorial for […]
With the cancellation of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the city of Angoulême has organized a new local, independent festival called Le Grand Off to be held January 29 through February 1, 2026, the same days as the cancelled international festival.The four day festival will include 150 events be held throughout the city at 60 […]
Judge Jennifer L Rochon has dismissed the case against Cadence Comic Art and its owner Paolo Belfiore that was brought by 17 cartoonists who alleged the gallery and art dealer of defrauded them and refusing to return their artwork. The dismissal came in response to a request by the artists’ attorney informing the court that the parties […]
Yesterday, as news broke that a Swiss couple had filed a criminal complaint against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo over a cartoon that mocked the deaths and burn victims from the New Year’s Eve Crans-Montana ski resort fire, the no-holds-barred paper fired back with another “drawing of the day” by Éric Salch. The cartoon asks the […]
A criminal complaint has been filed in Switzerland over a Charlie Hebdo “Drawing of the Day” by contributor Éric Salch. The cartoon (below) was published last Friday—the same day of a state memorial service for the victims who perished in the Crans-Montana ski resort New Year’s Eve fire that claimed the lives of 40 individuals […]
🇮🇳 International Exhibition of Gandhi CaricaturesThe Indian Institute of World Culture is hosting the International Exhibition of Gandhi Caricatures from January 13 to 22 at its Art Gallery in Basavanagudi, Bengaluru.🇳🇱 Jokes Aside: Cartoons, Censorship and Free SpeechThis Tuesday, January 13, in Amsterdam, the exhibition Designed to Provoke is being hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study who will host a […]
French cartoonist Sergio Goizauskas better known as Serguei passed away on January 8 at the age of 69. Born in Argentina. He had a 45 year run at Le Monde where he was described as “not a political or current cartoonist, but rather a poet capable of drawing.”From Lucas Delattre at Le Monde (translated via […]