European Cartoon Awards 2025

From Facebook.

The European Cartoon Award has announced the winners of its 2025 contest. 

The first prize was awarded to the Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards, for his work published in the Dutch outlet Trouw. 

The two Runners-up are cartoonists Emad Hajjaj (Jordan) and Zehra Ömeroğlu (Turkey). 

An Honourable Mention was awarded to Patrick Chappatte (Switzerland):

The Royal Mail Releases a Peanuts Stamp Set

From the Royal Mail.

This colourful collection of Peanuts Special Stamps features iconic illustrations of anxious Charlie Brown, his beloved beagle Snoopy and their chums, to mark the comic strip’s 75th anniversary.

Editorial Cartoonist Walt Handelsman Retires

From The Times Picayune.

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Walt Handelsman is putting away his pen and ink after decades of delighting Louisiana with his alternately humorous and poignant takes on the state's peculiar politics, personalities and events.

Handelsman, 69, will retire from The Times-Picayune | The Advocate at the end of December.

Cartoonists Rights Pledge Drive 2025

From Cartoonists Rights.

Every holiday season Cartoonists Rights asks for your direct support in aid of our mission to defend cartoonists whose freedom of expression is threatened simply because of what they draw, leading to their criminalization, displacement, judicial harassment, physical or verbal abuse, or worse.

Coming to the end of a very hard year in our sector and looking ahead to the next, we face two challenges common to all American non-profits with an international remit:

New stamp series celebrates Canada's iconic graphic novelists (2)

From Canada Post.

Canada Post announces the issuance of a series of six stamps – the second of a diptych (the first was issued in 2024) – paying tribute to Canadian graphic novel authors: Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, in self-portraits reading one of their most famous books.

Similar Concepts

Tjeerd Royaards in Substack.

Let me start this editorial by stating that I am not accusing any artist referenced here below of plagiarism. 

Editorial cartooning isn’t exactly a get-rich-quick scheme, so in my opinion there aren’t many cartoonists who plagiarize (why would you?). 

There are, however, a lot of instances where cartoonists come up with similar concepts.

Giorgio Forattini 1931-2025

From Ansa.

Italian cartoonist Giorgio Forattini died last week at the age of 94.

Born in 1931 in Rome, he worked for Panorama and left-leaning daily La Repubblica, edited Il Male, and later created illustrations for liberal daily La Stampa, conservative daily Il Giornale and centrist daily QN.