Postmedia apologizes, cancels syndicated cartoon after offensive post

From the APTN website.





Postmedia, owners of the National Post and dozens of papers across Canada, has cancelled a syndicated cartoon after an “offensive” post was published that depicted the Lone Ranger and Tonto in a bar.

Highlights from the 2020 World Press Photo nominees

From the British Journal of Photography.

Black Drag Magic - Portrait of a drag artist and activist, nominated in the portrait category © Lee-Ann Olwage

The nominations for this year’s World Press Photo Contest have been announced, revealing the runners up for the coveted Photo of the Year and Story of the Year awards.

I wish I'd drawn... (56)

... this wonderful cartoon by Michael de Adder.

Drawn for Counterpoint.

Claire Bretécher (1940 – 2020)

Cynthia Rose in The Comics Journal.

Claire Bretécher in 1979

Let's not bury the lead: Claire Bretécher, who has just died at the age of 79, made both real and important comics history. The fact of her sex isn't irrelevant.

But it wasn't being a woman that made Bretécher one of the few (if not the only) artists to work for all three of the 9th art's founding journals: Tintin, Spirou and René Goscinny's Pilote. 

20th World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Competition (Theme and Regulations)

Here are the rules and regulations:

"Journalism without fear of favour" Cartoon Contest

From Cartoon Movement.

Cartoon Movement, in partnership with Cartooning for Peace, is launching an international cartoon competition for the World Press Freedom Conference 2020.

Star-Ledger editorial cartoonist Bil Canfield dies at 99

From NJ.com.

Editorial cartoonist William (Bil) Canfield, who entertained millions of newspaper readers, died peacefully on January 30th at his home in Phoenix, Ariz., with his daughter Susan at his side. He was 99.

Dr Li Wenliang cartoon goes viral on Weibo

From the Dessins de Chappatte Facebook page.

Source : New York Times

The death of Dr Li Wenliang, condemned for raising the alarm about coronavirus, is raising anger in China ... and reviving the art of political cartooning, banned in the country.

This image by Kuang Biao has gone viral on the Weibo social network.

Israeli organization calls for removal of Portuguese cartoonist for anti-Semitism

From the J.R. Mora website.

An Israeli-based human rights organization, Btsalmo, sent a letter to the editor of the Portuguese magazine Sabado requesting the immediate dismissal of the cartoonist Vasco Gargalo for a drawing published in November 2019*.

Seth Wins Jury Prize in Angoulême

On the Angoulême Festival website.

The 2020 Fauve Special Jury Prize, given to a work which particularly struck the jury by its narration, its aesthetics and the themes addressed, was awarded to “Clyde Fans”, by Seth, at the 2020 Angoulême Bande Dessinée Festival.