“The Simpsons” were taken off the air in Venezuela because of several complaints by viewers that it was inappropriate for children. The station replaced Matt Groening’s show with Baywatch Hawaii and hasn’t fielded any more complaints. “It had to be taken off,” Televen TV station spokeswoman Elba Guillen said. “They consider it to be a […]
London Metropolitan police have removed an anti-gambling poster featuring an Pat Oliphant editorial cartoon depicting former President Bill Clinton. The poster, meant to warn of dangers of street gambling, were originally produced and hung by police officers in the Green Street Ward. “The poster was intended to tackle the issue of illegal street gamblers in […]
The Atlantic Journalism Awards nominees have been announced. The finalists in the editorial cartooning category are: Michael de Adder of The Daily News, (Halifax, NS), Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald, (Halifax, NS), and Greg Perry of the Telegraph-Journal, (Saint John, NB). The awards will be presented on May 3rd. The AJA is a Canadian […]
Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the now iconic Danish Muhammad cartoon would like to be rid of the cartoon, preferably through an auction, but no auction house will touch it. The proposal to sell the drawing also creates another issue – how much is it worth? “I would like to think that it has some […]
Newsweek has an interesting article about a Mexican editorial cartoonist, Francisco “Paco” Calderon, who works for the Reforma newspaper and his struggle to influence Mexican policy in regard to its relationship with the United States. His contention is that Mexico has played the victim role far too long and that it should work to strengthen […]
After the arrest of three men for suspicion of plotting to kill famed Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, 17 Danish papers have reprinted the 12 Mohammed cartoons “vowing to defend freedom of expression” and in doing so, igniting another round of worldwide protests. Pakistani youth rallied in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and other places burning the Danish […]
Last September I reported that Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks had a $100,000 reward on his head after one of his cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad’s head on the body of a dog was published. It’s now being reported that the Sweden’s Economic Crimes Bureau conducted a raid of a home back in November and found […]
Several readers sent me links to the news that Danish police arrested three Muslims who had “concrete murder plans” to kill Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists who drew the Prophet Mohammad back in the fall of 2005. According to MSNBC, the three suspects (two from Tunisia, and one from Moracco) will most likely […]
Tom Spurgeon has the best coverage of all Danish Cartoon residual news. He reports that Aleksandr Sdvishkov, who was the editor of the Zgoda weekly newspaper in Belarus has been sentenced to three years in a high-security prison for “incitement f religious hatred” after publishing the famed Danish Muhammed cartoons in February of 2006.
The United Nations has opened up a special exhibit of editorial cartoons in Rome Italy yesterday to call attention to human rights issues, war, hunger and religious extremism. The exhibit contains over 40 cartoons and includes the artwork of Jeff Danzinger among its list of international cartoonists.The exhibit will stay in Rome through January 10 […]
James Kemsley, cartoonist of Ginger Meggs, and a celebrated Australian cartoonist passed away today at the age of 59. James has been drawing the Ginger Meggs cartoon since 1984. The feature was first published in 1921 and is the most syndicated Australian comic strip. James is a former Australian Cartoonist Association president as well as […]
There’s an interesting story reprinted in the Daily Herald about how American entertainment companies will change the design of their cartoon/comic characters in foreign markets for greater marketing appeal. The process is called “transcreation.” Some of the examples they cited were Peter Parker who, in the Indian market, gained his spider-man powers through a “mysterious […]