Nate Beeler, the host of this year’s AAEC convention in Columbus, OH, has revealed some of the weekend’s plans. Attendees will hear from Mike Peters, Steve Brodner, Jules Feiffer, Liza Donnelly, Michael Kahn and Richard West. Topics will include Charlie Hebdo, free speech, Puck and of course being hosted in the hometown of the Billy […]
My headline is wordy, but there are several updates to the The Montgomery Sentinel cartoon plagiarism case since it was first revealed three weeks ago. Tom Moore, the city councilman who brought attention to the issue, wrote the paper’s owner hoping that perhaps if he went high enough into the paper’s chain of command, that […]
I knew reporter/journalist/news anchor Jake Tapper had inspired to be a cartoonist, I wasn’t aware that he was once a cartoonist for Roll Call. That aside, the paper asked him to provide a cartoon for their 60th anniversary, which he did (see below).I think Jake might be a candidate for the National Cartoonists Society’s ACE […]
As if the news of Iranian activist and artist Atena Faraghdani’s being sentenced for 12.5 years for posting a cartoon on Facebook was outrageous enough, Global Village is reporting that Atena’s attorney has also been arrested for … shaking her hand.From The Global Village: Mohammad Moghimi, the attorney of the Iranian activist and cartoonist Atena […]
I mentioned Atena Farghadani back in May. She’s an Iranian activist, artist who depicted certain Iranian leaders as goats after they passed legislation restricting birth control. That led to an arrest, a hunger-strike and a heart attack.Now she’s been sentenced to 12 years for ?gathering and colluding against national security?, ?insulting members of parliament through […]
Matt Bors explains changes are afoot at The Nib, which in the last couple of years has become a notable place the web for comics.But a daily lineup was in many ways a very traditional approach to publishing. And a traditional approach to publishing has never been Medium?s thing. So we?re making changes to focus […]
Brian Karem, the Executive Editor at The Sentinel Newspapers, has issued an apology and statement to the cartoonist’s whose works William Charles copied, manipulated and signed off as his own. But the troubling line in the statement was that the paper will continue to use cartoons by William Charles in the future.Here’s the full statement:On […]
Rockville MD councilman Tom Moore has exposed an ongoing blatant case of mass editorial cartooning plagiarism wherein the artist is removing the original artists’ name and signing it as his/her own. A cartoonist is identified only as William Charles who used a variety of editorial cartoonist and New Yorker cartoonist’s work. The Montgomery Sentinel is […]
Last month the Cartoon Art Museum announced that they were losing their current space on Mission street due to higher lease rates in the Bay Area. They’ve now announced that they’ve been able to extend their current lease until September 2015.From their press release:In light of the booming commercial rental market, the museum?s situation is […]
Steve Bell, editorial cartoonist for The Guardian, reflects on cartooning after the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the balance between free speech and offending people.
This last weekend was the annual Reuben Awards where the National Cartoonist Society bestows their best of in various categories and the big prize for Cartoonist of the Year. This year, the Reuben Award went to New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. In the division awards the winners are: Magazine Feature / Magazine Illustration Tom RichmondNewspaper […]
From Newsweek:Cartoonists are ?particularly vulnerable? to threats because their work conveys ?incredibly complex ideas and themes and critiques in a pretty simple, easy to understand manner that crosses barriers,? said Courtney Radsch, advocacy director of CPJ. ?That?s what makes the cartoons powerful but also what puts the cartoonists at great risk…. They are pushing those […]
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 […]
New York Times reports Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald Luzier AKA Luz is leaving the publication.“The time came when it was just all too much to bear. There was next to nobody to draw the cartoons. I ended up doing three or every four front-pages. Every print-run was torture because the others are no longer there,” […]
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 […]