From Cartoonists Rights Network International:Iranian artist-activist Atena Farghadani, who has been on a hunger strike in Gharchak Prison south of Tehran since February 9, 2015, is in precarious medical condition according to her lawyer, as reported by Amnesty International. ?Her life is now literally in the hands of the Iranian authorities. She must receive the […]
Oy! Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. Here’s a voicemail posted by The Herald-Times (Bloomington, IN) from an eight-year old boy who demanded the paper reinstate his favorite comics. He concludes by calling the paper (or editors) “idiots, jerks, [and] shitholes.” The profanity is in the last 15 or so seconds.The demand includes reinstating: […]
The Herblock Foundation has announced that this year’s winner of the Herblock Prize is Baltimore Sun and The Economist editorial cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher .From the Herblock Foundation: In a distinguished career that spans more than 36 years, KAL has created over 8,000 cartoons and 140 magazine covers. His resume includes six collections of his […]
From Malaysian Insider:Police have disrupted the second attempted launch of cartoonist Zunar’s latest book, ROS in Kangkongland, and will arrest the satirist if he proceeds with the event on the book featuring the prime minister’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor. Zunar, whose full name is Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, said he was told by police officials […]
From Sputnik News: Sweden’s Karlstad University cancelled a lecture by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, author of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, who was allegedly targeted in a recent Copenhagen shooting, a university representative told The Local news outlet Friday. Over 10,000 Commemorate Victims of Copenhagen Shooting Vilks was expected to talk in front of some 100 […]
From the NY Times: Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar, was arrested Thursday in Oslo on preliminary charges of inciting to commit criminal offense, a day after giving an interview to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. He was also apprehended on preliminary charges for threating a Kurdish immigrant living in Norway in the same TV interview. […]
Clay Bennett, editorial cartoonist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, was the 2014 winner of the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning. Here’s his acceptance speech.
Yesterday I posted a link to a New Yorker gallery of sample cartoons from 1965-1975. Not sure how far back they’re posting from the archives, but here’s a few additional links to other years they’ve posted. As I mentioned yesterday, it’s interesting that the clothing, hair styles, etc. become dated, but the humor (what we, […]
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes writes: ??we unfortunately have decided to cancel?? That was part of an email waiting for me this morning from Stéphane Grimaldi, the Directeur General of Le Mémorial de Caen in Normandy, France concerning a cartoonists? conference I was due to attend in April. Mr. Grimaldi explained that because of security concerns and […]
A couple of weeks ago a new company released software called Astropad that turns your iPad into a graphic tablet – meaning it mirrors what’s on your desktop screen. You can draw in Photoshop on your iPad with a variety of stylus.Here’s their promotional video:Here’s a review:Software costs $50. Anyone tried it yet?
The New Yorker has posed a sample of cartoons from the 1960’s and 70’s. The humor still works, but the imagery (clothes, hair) are quite dated.Via: Michael Maslin
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis’s book Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made has been adapted to a children’s theater production. The show opens in Portland, OR on February 22 and runs through March 22.Here’s the producers talking about the play:
When Half Full creator Maria Scrivan told me last week that she had landed a contract with Tribune Content Agency, I was surprised. Mostly that Tribune Content Agency (formally known as Tribune Media Services) was launching a new feature – something they haven’t done in several years. That Maria was going into syndication wasn’t much […]
Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, will be speaking at a United Nations forum on human rights next month. From this story in the Malay Mail Online, he’s hitting back at the Malaysian government that has harassed, confiscated his books and cartoons, and charged him on sedition for years.?I will explain in detail… some […]
Charlie Hebdo Issue 1179 will be released tomorrow. The cover sports The Pope and various French notables and a headline that reads, “Here we go again…” Print run is 2.5 million. Prior to the terrorist attack the magazine had a weekly print run of about 60,000. As I noted in another post, at least one […]