As Mike Peterson mentioned in his column today, cartoonist Pedro X. Molina has been awarded the Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent 2023 from the Human Rights Foundation (“promot[ing] freedom where it’s most at risk: in countries ruled by authoritarian regimes”). From the announcement: The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce the […]
Last week CARTOONISTS RIGHTS presented the 2023 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award to Abecor at a private ceremony, held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Cartoonists Rights International Network awarded the biennial Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award to Abel Bellido Córdova (Abecor) who continues his crusade against corruption in spite of […]
From Variety: The trailer (below) for “Draw for Change!” – which was named best documentary series at Canneseries this week – has debuted. The feature film version of the first of its six episodes, “Behind the Lines,” will world premiere at Visions du Réel Film Festival on April 28. The series, from creators Guillaume Vandenberghe […]
The Australian Cartoonists Association has uploaded a dozen or so recent “issuus” of their Inkspot magazine quintupling the Inkspots and Yearbooks available, bringing the archive up to the Spring/Summer 2023 edition. Hours of fun and information here. Now if the National Cartoonists Society and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists would follow suit.
Charlie Hebdo is the French satire magazine mostly famous (infamous?) for printing and reprinting cartoons of Mohammed, though they attack all religions. But their Islamophobia was again on display when, hours after the horrific Turkish-Syrian earthquake that has resulted in over 20,000 dead, Charlie Hebdo produced a cartoon joking about the disaster. The cartoon was […]
Bessie Mae Kelley, Kieran Castaño, Robert Ripley, Harry Bliss, HergéAlex Jay took note of the Bessie Mae Kelley stories and dug up her vitals from birth: Bessie Mae Kelley was born Elizabeth Mae Kelley. The date of her birth is unclear: November 1889 in the 1900 United States Census; November 10, 1890, Minnesota Death Index; […]
Famed British illustrator Sir Quentin Blake has many honors –as detailed in his entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Throughout his career, Blake has been covered in prizes. His illustrations for Russell Hoban’s ‘How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen’ won the Whitbread Award (1974), while his work in Michael Rosen’s ‘Sad Book’ was […]
An article takes time to read, but a picture speaks to us instantly. In the 18th century, William Hogarth campaigned pictorially against idleness, cruelty and drink and Thomas Rowlandson invented comical strips. But it was after 1805, when James Gillray depicted a small, ravening Napoleon carving up the world with William Pitt, that the cartoon […]
The death of print editorial cartoons is a worldwide phenomena. Online platforms are full of editorial cartoons… the era of newspaper cartooning is over. Indian editorial cartooning has entered the world of online platforms. © Sorit GuptoSorit Gupto‘s essay on the state on the editorial cartoon in India. [Sometime] in the early 90s. There was […]
Continuing with a couple topics that partner Peterson touched on this morning.The Return of Brownie the Elf Cleveland Scene reports National Football League’s Cleveland Browns bringing back an old favorite. From a helicopter perch high above the city, Fox 8’s Patty Harken snapped this shot of the Cleveland Browns’ new midfield logo at FirstEnergy Stadium, […]
As we hit the week of Lee newspapers’ cuts to their comics pages, we also come to the week that News Corp Australia newspapers cut not most but all the comic strips they were carrying.Gary Clark is the creative genius behind the comic strip, Swamp. First published in 1981 by the Sunshine Coast Daily, the […]
The Courier Mail has announced the newspaper will no [longer] print comic strips, much to the dismay of the industry. In a small article in the paper today, the Courier Mail said the decision was based on “extensive research into changing readership habits”. Australian Cartoonists Association president Cathy Wilcox said she hoped dismayed readers spoke […]
Lucien De Gieter, born September 4, 1932, turns 90 today and becomes one of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers.Lucien’s entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia: Lucien De Gieter is a Belgian comic artist, since the 1960s a prominent artist for Spirou magazine and best known for his comic series ‘Papyrus’. De Gieter began his association with […]
The government of People’s Republic of China has disciplined those it deems responsible for “tragically ugly” illustrations that appeared in an elementary school math book.In May of 2022,Photos of the pictures went viral on China’s social media. Related hashtags had been viewed more than 4bn times by Monday and millions of comments were left beneath […]
Rifling through the newspaper to dig out the comic strips will soon be a thing of the past. News Corp Australia has announced it will be dropping cartoon strips from all its mastheads from September 11. The decision by News Corp has disappointed cartoonists who said comic strips were relevant and a way for generations to […]