Hank Kennedy at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) writes of the pressure being seen by U.S. political cartoonists to suppress cartoons critical of the Trump Administration in an article looking at the United States section of Under Pressure: US’s Erosion of the Right to Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter. Pointing out examples from Ann […]
Bob Whitmore – Philanthropist Bob Whitmore, editorial cartoonist who was in the news last Summer, came across the feed recently when he combined his political cartooning with public service cartooning for radio station WMNF Tampa. Bob shares some of his Creative Loafing Tampa cartoons with WMNF and also does some extra work for the station. […]
In January, the Washington Post spiked a cartoon by Pulitzer Prize–winning Ann Telnaes that criticized the supplicant attitude displayed by the paper’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, towards Donald Trump … She promptly resigned after the incident, the first time one of her pieces had been rejected over its subject. For 31 years, KAL contributed his […]
Creative Loafing Tampa reinstated Bob Whitmore today as staff cartoonist after hundreds of readers flooded the email inboxes of corporate and local publishers over their decision to fire him last week over a cartoon that two readers complained was “anti-Semitic.”The saga began after the paper published Bob’s cartoon criticizing Israel’s food blockade to Gaza. Within […]
The corporate owners of the alternative paper Creative Loafing Tampa fired Bob Whitmore, the local political cartoonist, over what a couple saw as an antisemitic cartoon he drew and the paper published.From WNFM-FM radio: A political cartoonist at Creative Loafing is out of a job because of criticisms the paper got after it published his […]