Cartoonist Albert Uderzo has passed away.Alberto Aleandro (Albert) Uderzo April 25, 1927 – March 24, 2020 From The Guardian obituary:Asterix illustrator Albert Uderzo has died at the age of 92, his family has announced. The French comic book artist, who created the beloved Asterix comics in 1959 with the writer René Goscinny, died on Tuesday. He […]
The CRNI is announcing that:After some fifteen years in the role Joel Pett – multi-award winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald Leader – has decided to retire from the Presidency of Cartoonists Rights Network International’s board of directors. Mr Pett’s decision comes six months on from the retirement from active duties of CRNI’s founder […]
The Morning Star, a British daily, apologized Sunday for a cartoon it ran Tuesday:The Morning Star apologises unreservedly for the publication last Tuesday of a cartoon which was offensive to trans people. The cartoon had not been authorised for publication and its appearance in the print edition represents a failure to follow our own procedures […]
above: Régis LoiselAn exhibit of original European comic art in New York City gives Forbes a reason to look at the collectors market for original comic art.Philippe Labaune, founder of Art9, has a few ideas explaining why American collectors are getting into original comics art right now. “The American collector is moving steadily towards the […]
Famed French cartoonist Claire Bretécher has passed away.Claire Bretécher April 7, 1940 – February 10*, 2020 * A number of early reports gave February 11 as the date of passing.“Women in comic strips are usually portrayed either as shrews or movie stars. But in real life, women, like men, are neither of these extremes, so […]
Yeah, it’s a cereal thing.From The Guardian:Lidl is to remove cartoon characters from its own-brand cereal ranges to help parents resist pester power and tackle Britain’s growing childhood obesity crisis. The discount retailer, which has almost 800 UK stores, pledged to remove cartoon characters from eight of its cereal ranges by spring.From the Daily Mail: […]
Aislin from the Montreal Gazette Steven Camley of Scotland’s The Herald Graeme MacKay of the Toronto Star looks at the local scene
The New Zealand Media Council, a self-regulatory body funded by industry, has ruled that the Garrick Tremain “spots” cartoon “has no redeeming qualities.”The New Zealand Media Council’s findings relating to the Tremain cartoon:Cartoonists employ wit, satire, exaggeration, caricature and humour to make a point.A few deft stokes of the pen and a few well-chosen words […]
From the Livingston Ledger:An image of the Duke of Cambridge leap-frogging over his father the Prince of Wales [#39] is among the satirical Gerald Scarfe cartoons going on sale. The unpublished image, which has a £3,000 to £5,000 estimate, is among a catalogue of cartoons to be sold by Sotheby’s auctioneers in central London on […]
An update on our story of an editorial cartoon that made light of a measles outbreak in Samoa that is killing the young and the elderly.After an uproar and street protests the Otago Daily Times printed a mea culpa, and editor Barry Stewart publicly stated a more heartfelt apology.Cartoonist Garrick Tremain at the time gave a […]
The Guardian proudly reports that one of their cartoonists, Rebecca Hendin, won the Political Cartoon of the Year award.The artist Rebecca Hendin has won the political cartoon of the year award for a work in the Guardian that depicted Boris Johnson sitting in a burning room while skipping a joint press conference with Luxembourg’s prime […]
In Samoa almost 4000 people have come down with measles; 55, mostly young children, have died. The Samoan measles outbreak was turned into a gag by New Zealand cartoonist Garrick Tremain.It sparked immediate outrage and was labelled racist, heartless, and insensitive. The outcry led to the Otago Daily Times, who published the cartoon to issue an […]
Sputnik News, owned and funded by the Russian Government, is registering displeasure over a recent Mike Luckovich cartoon.Sputnik, using a lot of boldface, says:An award-winning American political cartoonist has made a habit of deploying bigoted tropes as a political weapon against Russians. His latest doodle features a nefarious “Russians” figure arbitrarily thrown into a motley […]
A bit out of my wheelhouse, but…Though there was no intention to offend, DC Comics has decided that the better part of valor is submission to the vagaries of Mainland China’s whims.From Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post: A new Batman comic book series has landed the Caped Crusader in the middle of a social […]
In the tradition of George Cruikshank, Cal Alley, John Dirks, Barbara Brandon, and many others, Johannes Leak is following in the footsteps of his father Bill Leak.The void left at The Australian by cartoonist Bill Leak – who passed away in 2017, aged 61 – will be filled by his son, Johannes. “If anyone could […]