Roswell Daily Record editorial cartoonist Keith Bell is taking some heat from citizens who felt like his latest cartoon was telling blacks to go to Georgia and Hispanics to go to California.From KRQE:Bell says he never meant to upset anyone. He says the picture is about people in Roswell working to change street names to […]
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From the Washington Post: Last month The EastAfrican, a regional newspaper printed in Nairobi, was banned in Tanzania after 20 years of operation. The official explanation given by the government was that the paper was in violation of the country?s newspaper registration laws, but the more likely reason for the shutdown was the newspaper?s criticism […]
Kevin Kallaugher (KAL) has won this year’s Grand Prix Press Cartoon Europe cartoon. The cartoon above was published in the October issue of The Economist. KAL’s cartoon beat out 150 other cartoonists and takes home 8,000 Euros. Second and third place goes to Jean Gouders (The Netherlands), and Quirit (Belgium) respectively.Congratulations to KAL
Cartoonists Rights Network International is a non-profit organization that monitors threats and abuses against editorial cartoonists around the world. When a cartoonist is being arrested, abused, beaten, censored, or disappeared for his or her work, CRNI applies international pressure and works with the diplomatic community for redress. They’ve started an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds […]
Malaysian editorial cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, has been arrested in a government crackdown on dissent. The New York Times reports that Zunar, who has long been targeted and harassed by the government for his cartoons, was detained after Lunar posted the following cartoon on Twitter. Cartoon Zunar: PM Najib is the […]
The Wall Street Journal has profiled Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque (AKA Lunar). They’ve also posted a video of him talking about how he draws his cartoons. My only comment about that is, can we pass a law that prohibits video producers from using that cheesy background music? Malaysian Cartoonist Shares His Secrets.
The American Society of News Editors has announced this year’s Sunshine Week will be March 15-21. They’re also asking editorial cartoonists to contribute cartoons on the topic of open and transparent government to be used in the week’s celebration. Cartoons will be used in a gallery on the Sunshine Week website as well as part […]
Former Rocky Mountain News editorial cartoonist Ed Stein (who also created the comic strip Freshly Squeezed has launched his webcomic Sleeper Ave . The comic is a personal history of growing up in Waco, Texas in the 1950s. Here’s how Ed describes it:In 1953, a tornado roared through the small town I grew up in. […]
I will be upfront. The headline insulating a Mohammad/Charlie Hebdo connection is my conjecture – not anything Daryl Cagle has insulated. But here’s what we do know from Daryl. Cagle.com – one of the largest online repositories of editorial cartoons in the world has been hit with a brute force Distributed Denial of Service attack […]
Australian political cartoonist Larry Pickering was visited by police after he posted a cartoon on his website in response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Fortunately, they weren’t there to harass or censor. They wanted to offer protection.Pickering said he draw the image in response to what happened in France as a sign that he […]
Still mortified about our fallen cartoonist colleagues, but free speech will always win. #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/GHejOEXHwG — Rob Tornoe (@RobTornoe) January 7, 2015Editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe found his cartoon (above) responding the to the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo had gone viral and even ended up in print publications – without permission or compensation.Then, I […]
The same day the world was horrified and then rallied to stand by cartoonists and their right to free speech, the Sun-Sentinel laid off Chan Lowe, their staff editorial cartoonist of 30 years, according to Buddy Nevins a blogger that covers journalism in Southern Florida.Nevin writes:Lowe was just one of several employees dumped this week. […]
The New York Times has a profile up of each of the four cartoonists shot and killed yesterday in the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo. The cartoonists are Georges Wolinski, Stéphane Charbonnier (“Charbo“), Jean Cabut (“Cabu“) and Bernard Verlhac (“Tignous“). Françoise Mouly, the art editor of The New Yorker, who was born in France and […]
I caught wind of this last year, but it’s now official. Jeff MacNelly’s widow, Susie, has donated Jeff’s original art and papers to the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. The collection includes his editorial cartoons and his comic strips Shoe, Pluggers, and cartoons created for Dave Barry’s humor column. Jeff was […]