Australian editorial cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away. Jonathan Oscar (Jon) Kudelka February 22, 1972 – February 8, 2026 Jon Kudelka’s family has announced the passing of the cartoonist: We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday 8 February 2026, surrounded by his family […]
At the close of this year’s Le Grand Off, the festival awarded the Prix Charlie Schlingo to French cartoonist Guillaume Bouzard for his album Les Vacances chez Pépé-Mémé. The album is described as a short, gag-driven comic about childhood holidays with grandparents, rendered in Guillaume’s trademark crude, elastic offbeat drawing style.The other prize of the night: The “Couilles […]
UK’s Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation (PCO) handed out their annual Splats Awards a few days ago. The only place I’m finding the results of The Splats Awards is on the PCO Bluesky account where they also post photos of the event. The winners are… Kevin Wells for Best Caricature Grizelda for Best Current Affairs Grizelda again […]
If you think that headline is confusing, buckle up. Today, on the first day of the new indie Angoulême festival, Le Grand Off (organized to replace the canceled 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival), the Association FIBD, along with disgraced 9e Art+ festival manager Franck Bondoux, announced they will sue the Association for the Development of […]
Roger Dahl has decided to retire from his The Japan Times cartooning career after 35 years. Gebdel Gento writes of Roger Dahl leaving Tokyo’s The Japan Times, Japan’s largest English language newspaper: Longtime readers of this paper will be familiar with the artwork of Roger Dahl, whose contributions have been an integral part of The […]
Two Cuban cartoonist, illustrators: Mary Esther Lemus and Camila Ramírez Lobón, are two of the ten recipients of the Cuban Migrant Arts Resilience Fellowship by the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC). The fellowship supports exiled Cuban artists with a financial grant, mentorship, and networking to help artists rebuilding their professional lives abroad. This is ARC’s […]
Italian cartoonist Sergio Tarquinio, another of our Senior Strippers, has passed away. Sergio Tarquinio October 13, 1925 – January 12, 2026 Another Senior Stripper who had reached the age of 100 has passed away this month. From JiJi Press: Rome, Jan 12. – (Adnkronos) – From the immediate post-World War II period to the mid-1980s, […]
Italian-Belgium cartoonist Dino Attanasio, one of our Senior Strippers, has passed away. Dino Attanasio Eduardo (Dino) Attanasio May 8, 1925 – January 17, 2026 From rtbf (via Google): Dino Attanasio passed away on January 17, 2026, in his hundredth year. A major figure in Franco-Belgium comics, he was one of the architects of the golden […]
With the cancellation of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, the city of Angoulême has organized a new local, independent festival called Le Grand Off to be held January 29 through February 1, 2026, the same days as the cancelled international festival.The four day festival will include 150 events be held throughout the city at 60 […]
Yesterday, as news broke that a Swiss couple had filed a criminal complaint against the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo over a cartoon that mocked the deaths and burn victims from the New Year’s Eve Crans-Montana ski resort fire, the no-holds-barred paper fired back with another “drawing of the day” by Éric Salch. The cartoon asks the […]
A criminal complaint has been filed in Switzerland over a Charlie Hebdo “Drawing of the Day” by contributor Éric Salch. The cartoon (below) was published last Friday—the same day of a state memorial service for the victims who perished in the Crans-Montana ski resort New Year’s Eve fire that claimed the lives of 40 individuals […]
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age both Nine Entertainment newspapers ran apologies for printing a Cathy Wilcox cartoon that many were offended by claiming it spotlighted an antisemitic trope. The editorial apology was prefaced with The Herald noting that it “lead calls” for a royal commission to investigate the Bondi Beach massacre and supported […]
French cartoonist Sergio Goizauskas better known as Serguei passed away on January 8 at the age of 69. Born in Argentina. He had a 45 year run at Le Monde where he was described as “not a political or current cartoonist, but rather a poet capable of drawing.”From Lucas Delattre at Le Monde (translated via […]
The Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman exhibit “Never Again!.. And again… And again…” currently at the Paris Galerie Martel art gallery has been extended another week. Originally scheduled to close tomorrow, visitors can view Joe and Art’s “graphic and political dialogue around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” on Gaza until January 17.Additionally, €80,000 was raised off of selling […]
An interesting article by Resham at StratNews Global (New Delhi, India) about China effectively using cartoons on social media platforms to shape narratives of international events to Americans, western nations, India, and Japan. China seems to have deliberately outsourced its foreign policy messaging to cartoonists. Political cartoons and poster art have quietly been elevated into tools […]