Cartoonist Ted Rall has petitioned the California Supreme Court to review a lower court’s ruling that found in favor of the L. A. Times anti-SLAPP suit against Ted.SLAPP and anti-SLAPP from Forbes:For my non-attorney readers, a strategic lawsuit against public participation — aka SLAPP — is a lawsuit that may potentially censor, intimidate and silence […]
“Personally, I don’t think there should be a line.”Because who is going to decide what should or shouldn’t?Voice of America highlights editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes in a 2½ minute video.
Paul Berge celebrates the end of The War to End All Wars with a selection of editorial cartoons from 100 years ago.The End was the beginning of cleaning up the mess. Or as Paul puts it: “every party needs its pooper.” Paul has done an incredible job of following the First World War for years. From […]
Michael Maslin: Michael Maslin : You know, it?s funny, but I realized this evening while looking up your work on The New Yorker?s database that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of your first appearance in the magazine, the issue dated December 13, 1993. What was that moment like for you, selling that first drawing, and […]
Graphic cartoonist/journalist Susie Cagle talks to Robert Russell of Cartoonists Rights Network International about her arrest last year while covering the Occupy Oakland protests and how and why the case is still yet to be resolved.Via Mike Lynch
On February 15, Cartoon Movement will launch the first monthly installment of Army Of God, an ambitious 100 page work of comics journalism by David Axe and Tim Hamilton focusing on the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Congo, the people they’ve terrorized, and the people fighting back. Based on David Axe’s reporting from the Democratic […]
Last nights massive arrest of 400 Occupy Oakland protesters included for a second time graphic journalist Susie Cagle. According to Susie’s Twitter stream she was caught in the police kettle where at one point she was thrown down by police during a charge that left her “numb for 5 minutes.” Four other credentialed journalists were […]
I’ve mentioned Susie Cagle before regarding her reporting on the Occupy Oakland protests wherein she’s been tear-gassed and arrested while covering the demonstrations. Michael Cavna has a write-up of other cartoonists in other cities are that are reporting on the events through comic journalism. Featured include Susie, Matt Bors and Stephanie McMillan. You can see […]
Susie Cagle, the lone comic/graphic journalist reporting in the Occupy Oakland protest, has been released from jail last night after being charged with a misdemeanor “present at raid”. She has been covering the protests for the last three weeks and despite having her credentials out in plain sight and even recognized by one of the […]