A sad story of Iranian artist and political activist Atena Farghadani who has been arrested for the cartoon above criticizing a new law restrict access to birth control. Ms Farghadani, 28, faces charges of spreading propaganda, insulting MPs, and insulting the supreme leader. The laws would end decades of family planning in Iran, outlawing vasectomies […]
Christiane Gruber makes the case that The West is under reporting the opposition to ISIS from Muslim cartoonists in the Middle East. Writing in Newsweek:Over the past year, cartoonists across the Middle East have critiqued ISIS with equal amounts of ferocity and fearlessness. From Jordan to Iran, they frequently lambast ISIS?referring to it through its […]
Congratulations are in order for Robert Ariail who is this year’s Green Eyeshade award winner. The award recognizes the best journalists in the southeastern United States. Coming in second and third place are Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press and Bill Day of Cagle Cartoon Syndicate.
From the Malay Mail:The Federal Court today allowed the government to appeal a lower court?s decision to lift a ban on two books by political cartoonist Zunar. The cartoonist, whose real name is Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaqur said that the ban on the two books, 1 Funny Malaysia and Perak Darul Kartun were initially lifted […]
Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist for The Chronicle Herald, has been awarded the Atlantic Journalism Award for editorial cartooning.Finalists were Michael de Adder also of The Chronicle Herald and Wayne Wright of The Journal Pioneer.Congratulations Bruce as well as Michael and Wayne.
Kevin Kallaugher is this year’s recipient of the Herblock award. Below is the audio from his acceptances speech at the Library of Congress.Bruce Guthrie has posted scores of photos from that evening including this one. It looked like a great event.
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has posted an official statement condemning the recent shooting attempt in Garland, TX.The shootings in Texas once again demonstrate that art is provocative, but we must not cower in the face of threats to this profession or to free expression. Political art, be it cartoons, paintings, sculpture, or anything […]
Mike Rhode over at ComicsDC announced that this year’s recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy award for editorial cartooning is The Washington Post Writers Group’s Darrin Bell.From the announcement:The …awards… will be presented by Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy at a ceremony featuring remarks by Kerry Kennedy and Michael Beschloss on Thursday, May 21, 2015, at […]
Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis joined Tina Susman (LA Times), Linda Sarsour (strategist with the Campaign to Take on Hate and executive director of the Arab American Association of New York) and Gordon Coonfield, professor of communication at Villanova University as they discuss the Draw Muhammad contest shooting in Garland, TX, the controversial PEN […]
Philadelphia Daily News editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson has taken home two awards this month. She was named the winner of the 15th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition. The topic this year was “Press Freedom has a value, but also a price.” I don’t know how many cartoons were in her portfolio, but the […]
Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist and AAEC President Jack Ohman has posted the first of four in an illustrated series about his experience taking care of his aging father. The series runs on PBS.org.
From the New York Times:The French cartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo’s cover picture of the Prophet Mohammad after the Islamist killings at the satirical weekly in January, has said he will no longer draw the Prophet. “He no longer interests me,” he told Les Inrockuptibles in an interview published on its website on Wednesday. […]
From the miracle of Youtube – a 1993 interview with the great Herblock.
Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonists Signe Wilkinson and Ann Telnaes will speak at a panel at the Library of Congress this Thursday on the topic of “Cartooning in a Charlie Hebdo World”.Wilkinson and Telnaes will address several topics that currently affect a political cartoonist?s approach to his or her work. The panel will be moderated […]