Editorial cartoonist Kal (Kevin Kallaugher) recently returned from a cartoon diplomacy trip to Azerbaijan and notes that the country is trying to find itself in terms of freedom of expression after years of Communist single party rule.An excerpt from Kal’s post:You would expect to find suppression of free thinkers like cartoonists in authoritarian regimes. But […]
Time magazine is featuring two Nicaraguan editorial cartoonist Pedro X. Molina and Manuel Guillen and Manuel Guillen and their struggles with a Sandanista government that is intensifying its crackdown on the independent press. After receiving death threats and text messages threatening to crucify his daughter, Manuel moved his family to Miami where he was approached […]
James Kemsley, who drew the Ginger Meggs comic for 23 years before passing last December, has been posthumously awarded Order of Australia Medal. The Daily Telegraph notes that the honor was just not for his work as a cartoonist, but also “for his role as a local councillor and for his other passion, the Bradman […]
A Jordanian court is holding an in-absentia trial on 10 Danish editors and one cartoonists who published the Mohammed cartoons under a 2006 Jordanian law called the Jordanian Justice Act that allows Jordanian officials “to prosecute crimes committed outside the country if it affected the people of Jordan by electronic means.” The public prosecutors will […]
The Biggish Five © Jeremy Nell; Images reprinted by special permission. South African cartoonist Jeremy Nell is ending his Urban Trash comic strip – a darker social commentary strip that is syndicated to papers in South Africa to create a new strip that is “fun, cute and disarming.” The new strip is entitled The Biggish […]
A car bomb was detonated outside the Danish Embassy in Pakistan. Authorities believe the attack was targeting the Danish embassy in retaliation to the reprinting of the now infamous Mohammed cartoons back in February by several Danish newspapers. The attack came six weeks after al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslims to retaliate […]
Jonathan Mahood’s Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog will begin appearing in Germany’s Die Zeit weekly newspaper for a 12 week run on their kid’ page. Die Zeit has a circulation of about 500,000 and an estimated readership of 2 million. Jonathan writes on his blog that “editors chose Bleeker because it appealed to both children and […]
Kurt Westergaard, the controversial cartoonist drew the now infamous cartoonist of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban was honored last week with the Sappho Award by the Danish Free Press Society. The award, named after the Greek poet Sappho, comes with a $4,200 prize and statue.
The Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) has issued a call to cartoonists around the world to flood the Dutch Ministry of Justice with emails with their cartoons – all of their cartoons. According to CRNI, the arrest of Dutch cartoonist Gregorious Neskschot has been revealed that the Dutch Secret Service has a division “dedicated to […]
A cartoonist in Turkey has been indicted for insulting a supreme court prosecutor in a cartoon that was published March 19th. The cartoonist, Ibrahim Ozdabak, drew an owl sitting on a branch, wearing a judge’s robe and hooting “Huguk! Huguk!” in an play on Turkish word for “law” (huhuk). The cartoon did not name any […]
Members of the Dutch lower house will debate on the arrest of cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot who was arrested and detained for 30 hours last week for publishing on the internet cartoons that some deemed to “exceed the limits of freedom of expression.” Party members across the political spectrum are questioning the arrest as a violation […]
A Dutch cartoonist was arrested and released this week for “suspicion of publishing work that is discriminatory against Muslims and people of colour.” The cartoonist, who goes by the name “Gregorius Nekschot,” is an established cartoonist whose work appears in magazines, but publishes most of his cartoons on the web because Dutch print media refused […]
It’s not often that I get to report on comic page changes outside of the United States, but Hagar the Horrible was recently picked up by a free daily called “.ch” When the Swiss newspaper “Blick” redesigned the paper, it dropped Hagar for lack of space and .ch picked it up. .ch is a free […]
The uniquely American art form of the comic strip is gaining popularity in Africa. The Africa News website has posted a sampling of some of the cartoons now showing in an exhibit in the Netherlands.
A french editor has been fired for running a cartoon on the front page depicting Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy figures sitting on a cloud with the caption reading “Don’t worry Mohammad, we’ve all been caricatures here”. The editor, Jacques Lefranc, was dismissed by the paper’s owner as “a sign of respect.”