There have been over 700 entries into the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest – six of the entrants are Americans (and no, Ann Coulter, Ted Rall isn’t one of them).One of the American cartoonists is Mike Flugennock. Flugennock, of Washington, D.C., insisted his entry is not anti-Semitic but legitimate political criticism – because it criticizes not […]
While no official lawsuit has been filed, Ted has stopped his pledge drive to raise money for this libel/slander suit against Ann Coulter saying that he now has enough. The proposed libel/slander suit is the result of comments she made that Ted had entered the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon contest – a claim he denies.He’s now […]
University of Saskatchewan’s campus cartoonist Jeff MacDonald is not sorry that he drew a cartoon depicting Jesus having sex with a pig. The editor, who was fired, has apologized numerous times.MacDonald said his cartoon was intended to expose the double standard of Christians who were not offended by the recent European cartoon of the Prophet […]
First there was the Danish Mohammad cartoons that set the Muslim communities around the world in an uproar, then the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest was announced, then a graphic designer in Israel proposed a contest for Jews to lampoon themselves and now a moderate Muslim group wants a cartoon contest to promote a peaceful Mohammad.How […]
Ted Rall’s pledge drive to raise money to take Ann Coulter to court for libel and slander is slowly inching its way into the … five figures. In a recntly blog entry he posts the most recent pledge to $13,716.00. He also answers the question of what he’d do with the winnings if the suit […]
In a follow up to a story I posted yesterday, The New Straits Times, in Malaysia, has apologized for running a Non Sequitur strip that touched on the Muslim prophet Mohammad (but did not depict him). The Times gave a private explanation to the government Thursday and published an apology on its front page Friday. […]
Ann Coulter, the right-wing columnist (syndicated through Universal Press), just can’t stop offending the cartoonists. Currently she’s got Ted Ralls’ knickers in a twist after claiming he had entered the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest (which he denies), now in her latest column she bashes Arabs, Bill O’Reilly, the NYT and even takes a parting swipe […]
Prickly City cartoonist Scott Stantis has a op-ed piece with his take on the Mohammad cartoon controversy.Newspapers with a long and storied history of cartoonists have seen fit to cut loose this valuable resource. Papers like the Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun are now without a staff cartoonist. The Chicago Tribune recently dedicated a […]
The Newseum is sponsoring a discussion on how publications should cover the cartoon controversy. The panel includes Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News.How did the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad come to spark violent Islamic protests? Where should we draw the line between free speech and religious tolerance? What issues does the […]
The government of Malaysia may revoke The New Straits Times’ permit to print after it ran a Non-Sequitur cartoon. Wiley Miller’s February 20th’s Non Sequitur depicts an artist with a sign saying “Caricatures of Muhammad while you wait.”The New Straits Times got a show-cause letter from the Internal Security Ministry and was given three days […]
The Anti-Semitic cartoon contest has opened the gallery of entries. While the deadline for entry is not until March 5th, early entrant’s work are being posted. You can read more about this contest in one of my earlier posts.
Chris Lamb, the author of the book Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons, has a great editorial in the Rhode Island Providence Journal about the power of editorial cartoons. According to him, violent reactions to cartoons have also occured on American soil.This is not the first time an editorial cartoonist has […]
From the Atlanta Journal-Consitution comes this story how the comics have been on the front end of controversy before. Comic strips cited in this story include: Blondie, For Better Or For Worse, Beetle Bailey, Little Orphan Annie, Pogo, and Popeye. Comic strips, often whimsical and boiling with schmaltz, have been the province of pointed commentary, […]
Bill Day asked six other editorial cartoonists (Rex Babin, Chip Bok, Chris Britt, J.D. Crowe, Matt Davies, Steve Sack) to post their most controversial editorial cartoons and the reaction they received. You can see the cartoons and the reactions on the Commercial Appeal web site.
Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, has written an editorial for the Chicago Tribune on his reaction of the Danish Mohammad cartoons. He also addresses the impact of the cartoons on American editorial cartoonists.Things have changed greatly since Mr. Nast’s day. We who work as cartoonists in the United States must always be aware […]