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From Daryl Cagle we learn that the The Jerusalem Post has dropped Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen. Yaakov has drawn the strip for the Post for the last 35 years.

According to Michael Cavna over on his Comics Riff blog, more than 100 Iranian cartoonist will boycott the upcoming Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial scheduled for October. According to Nik Kowsar, an exiled Iranian political cartoonist now living near Toronto, many of his colleagues have decided to boycott the Ninth Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, scheduled […]

A Korean cartoonist identified only as “Choi” has been sued by Wonju city for the sum of $100,000 for inserting abusive words about President Lee into a cartoon. In the cartoon, which is supposed to be in honor of Korean Vietnam War veterans, a couple of people bow in front of a monument, but behind […]

Reporters Without Borders reports that some 23 reporters have been arrested since the riots began in Iran and the government shut down foreign news coverage. One of the reporters arrested is Behzad Basho. I tried to find any information on Behzad’s work, but could not find any. In related news. The newspaper, Velayat, has been […]

Things are still quite chaotic at work. I apologize that it’s eating into the time I usually dedicate to the blog. Products are set to launch first week of June. Things on the blog should pick up then. Until then, you’re all free to create an account and post any stories, discussion items that isn’t […]

Jonathan Shapiro (AKA “Zapiro”), the South African cartoonist who has drawn the ire, as well as law suits, from the new president Jacob Zuma, has decided to remove the shower head from atop Zuma’s cranium as a demonstration of optimism. I thought I will take stock of where we are and give the presidency a […]

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the shortage of sequential art writers in Belgium. Kids grow up wanting to be the illustrator/artist, not the writer. The article talks about Jean Van Hamme, a giant in the industry (he’s a writer) and his angst in finding good talent. Now, as Mr. Van Hamme […]

South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”) won the graphical journalism category of the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards for his two cartons “Rape of Justice” and “Xenophobia Flag.” The former cartoon depicted the then African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma of preparing to rape lady justice and sparked a law suit against the cartoonist by […]

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is featuring a series of short “Making of” documentaries and teasers online for Cordell Barker’s all new animated short, Runaway.Cordell Barker, who directed The Cat Came Back and Strange Invaders, is once again at his best with Runaway. Set to the music of Ben Charest (composer of The […]

Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”), one of the leading cartoonist/satirists in South Africa, has been sued twice by Jacob Zuma who will be sworn in this Saturday as the new president. The legal cases are still in the courts. Despite that threat, Zapiro pledges that he’ll continue to draw Zuma with a shower nozzle over Zuma’s head […]

Jacob Zuma, the leader of the African National Congress and presumed next president of South Africa, has filed another suit against cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (pen name “Zapiro”) over a series of “unflattering cartoons” that Zuma supporters consider racist. “I’ve been accused of racism many times in the past seven or eight months. In the previous […]

Comic Strips» Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau has a piece in Monday’s New Yorker (now available online). It’s an “unedited transcript of the complete G-20 Summit coverage of Roland Hedley, senior Twitter correspondent for Fox News, who appears regularly in ‘Doonesbury’.”» Chuck Barney interviews Dilbert creator Scott Adams on what keeps Scott going after 20 years. […]

Editorial Cartooning» Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger will be on the campus of the University of Tennessee’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy today speaking to students about politics and cartooning.InternationalA recent raid by Iraqi police on an exhibition featuring a cartoon lampooning their prime minister is being criticized by an […]

Expect more Manga in the coming years. The UK’s Guardian is reporting that one of the strategies for economic correction in Japan is to export more Manga. Part of the 15 trillion Yen stimulus measure unveiled last week contains language to boost Manga comic exports from 2% to 18 over the next decade resulting in […]

The BBC has a great story about the impact of the now famous Danish Mohammed cartoons. Last week’s NATO summit hit a snag because Turkey threatened to veto the appointment of Denmark’s Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen because the PM has not apologized for the cartoons. As the BBC reports, the question of importance regarding […]