Amsterdam cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards claimed this year’s European Cartoon Award last night at the annual European Cartoon Award ceremony held in The Hague. His cartoon focused on the death and destruction of Palestine by Israel and the fecklessness of the United Nations. Emanuele Del Rosso, Head of the European Cartoon Award had this to say […]
First there was the long list, then the short list, and now finally we get the finalists for the European Cartoon Award. The finalists include: Emad Hajjaj, Zehra Ömeroğlu, and Tjeerd Royaards. The winner will be announced next week during their annual Cartoons Day in Hague, Netherlands.
European Cartoon Award has announced their long list of 30 cartoonists who are in the running for their annual award to “honor the most provocative, insightful, and impactful cartoons of the year.” The contest received over 400 entries from 30 different countries. They will announce the short list prior to their annual ECA Cartoons Day that […]
I could do an entire day of cartoons in which Trump and Putin discuss the Ukraine war while Zelenskyy remains out of the conversation. It seems nobody in the world thinks it’s fair or right for the invader and an outside party to determine some other nation’s territory and sovereignty. I like Royaards’ piece because […]
Today is the Big Day — the start of three Big Days — if you think the Bezos/Sanchez wedding is the event of the season. For my part, I’m mystified by the whole thing, though, unlike Le Lievre, I wouldn’t imply that the entire $50 million should have been spent on the homeless instead. I’d […]
Jen Sorensen gets more out of four panels than anyone else in the business, and this gut-clencher is as accurate a portrait of the moment as you’re likely to see. Life does go on. Life has to go on. But the veneer of normalcy is wearing thin. At the dog park, we talk about an […]
Telnaes points out that this isn’t the first self-betrayal in our history, and she could have gone back to the beginning of the nation and added the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which would seem particularly upsetting because they were written and passed in the lifetimes of the Founders. Then again, they were the […]
Clay Jones gets to represent the large number of cartoons decrying the Democrats’ silent protest at the SOTU for two reasons. One is that he’s a big boy and I’ve complimented him enough times that he won’t get bent out of shape if I disagree with him, and the other is that he attached, as […]
The 2024 European Cartoon Award finalists have been announced. The finalists are Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands), Steven Lectrr Degryse (Belgium) and Victor Solís (Mexico). The European Cartoon Award was started by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht in 2019 after the New York Times announced it would no longer run editorial cartoons. The purpose of the prize is […]
Mannequin on the Moon (AMS) suggests a line that some major newspapers could adopt for the benefit of readers. I find it annoying when they list a headline on their opinion page that promises a challenging, interesting opinion, but doesn’t include the byline, so that you click on it and discover that, indeed, it’s from […]
There used to be a Sunday talking heads show called Issues and Answers, which was a pretty ambitious promise, though back then they tried. Today, it would be called “Issues and Talking Points” and I don’t watch Sunday political chat shows because I’m old enough to remember when politicians who went on “Meet the Press” […]
The Grammys will be tonight and I will continue my annual tradition of not caring. David Sipress is correct that people our age likely haven’t heard of many of the nominees except for Joni Mitchell, though the gag comes with a few actuallys. Actually, unless we’ve been living under a rock, we’ve at least heard […]
“Whoever fights with monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” — Friedrich Nietzche Both Nietzche and Joe Heller offer symbolic analogies; Heller’s is harder to misinterpret, but neither makes it easy to answer […]
I’m starting the day with Nick Anderson‘s cartoon following the release of the Justice Department’s 600-page report on the May, 2022, school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. There have been several other cartoons, but, while I don’t expect a cartoonist to read all 600 pages in time to fire off a timely commentary, I didn’t find […]
Zapiro speaks for a large number of cartoonists as they struggle to find something that is both fair and penetrating to say about the bloodbath going on in Israel and Gaza, with the additional burden of knowing that anything of any substance will — intentionally or not — be misinterpreted by a portion of your […]