Marilena Nardi at the ECC European Cartoon Center

From the ECC.

Silence, Winner, World Press Cartoon 2018

The European Cartoon Centre is presenting, from 29 September till 22 December 2024, an exhibition of the work of Italian cartoonist Marilena Nardi.

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2024

From Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

CXC 2024 poster art by Evan Salazar

Each year, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is proud to partner with institutions across Columbus to bring this free festival.

Join us on Friday, September 27 from 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. for our annual CXC Opening Reception.

Explore the museum, enjoy refreshments, and cheer on your cartoonist colleagues as we give out our annual awards at 6pm in the lobby. 

Visitors can peruse an open-house display of materials in the reading room, and view our current exhibit in the galleries: The Nancy Show: Ernie Bushmiller and Beyond.

The full slate of programming is available at cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

September 26 - 29, 2024

Drawn & Quarterly at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2024

From Drawn & Quarterly

Drawn & Quarterly will be exhibiting September 28-29, alongside some special guests including Kate Beaton (Ducks), Edward Steed (Forces of Nature), Chris Oliveros (Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?), and Ryan Holmberg (translator of Yoshiharu Tsuge, Fujiwara Maki, Yamada Murasaki, and more).

CML Main Library

96 S Grant Ave
Columbus, OH 43215

"Ink & Insight: 20 Years of Adam Zyglis Cartoons" Exhibition

From the Buffalo History Museum

For the past two decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis has created more than 4,000 pieces of visual commentary for The Buffalo News, keeping his pen on the pulse of local, national, and international news. 

Zyglis has carried on this important tradition of free expression, after his Pulitzer-winning predecessors Tom Toles and Bruce Shanks, with a focus on comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. 

Day in and day out, Zyglis has employed wit, biting satire, and caricature to direct our attention to hard truths and injustice, with the ultimate goal of pushing society forward.

This 20-year retrospective collection of dozens of his cartoons, spans four presidents and five governors.

Ink & Insight: 20 Years of Adam Zyglis Cartoons

October18, 2024 - July, 2025

The Buffalo History Museum

1 Museum Court

Buffalo, NY 14216

(716) 873-9644

Henry Payne charged with drawing “racist” cartoon

From The Detroit Metro Times. 

Henry Payne, a Detroit News auto industry reporter who moonlights as a political cartoonist is being criticized for appearing to imply that U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is a member of Hezbollah, which critics have labeled as “racist,” “xenophobic,” “vile,” and “disgusting.”

The illustration depicts Tlaib at her desk next to the charred remains of an electronic device with a thought balloon reading, “Odd, my pager just exploded.” 

The cartoon is a reference to a recent attack against the Lebanese organization Hezbollah that is believed to have been orchestrated by Israel, in which beepers and walkie-talkies were modified to act as remote-controlled explosives. 

The NFB at the Ottawa International Animation Festival

From the NFB website. 

From September 25 to 29, the Festival will present 17 NFB productions or co-productions, including 6 films in official competition:

• Maybe Elephants by Torill Kove
• Society of Clothes by Dahee Jeong
• In the Shallows by Arash Akhgari, Samaa d'Ehsan Gharib (world premiere)
• Hairy Legs by Andrea Dorfman and
• Unblending by Michelle Ku (available on line).

"Ralph Steadman: Inkling" Exhibition

From The Historic Dockyard Chatham.

The Historic Dockyard Chatham is thrilled to present Ralph Steadman: Inkling from September 21st to November 24th 2024. 

This exciting new exhibition will give both dedicated Steadman fans, as well as the uninitiated, the chance to see four varied and distinctive sides of his remarkable work and career.

"Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing" Exhibition

From ArtNet.

In a career that’s spanned more than six decades, the British artist Ralph Steadman's work has spanned political cartoons and illustrations for children’s books. 

He has traced the life of Sigmund Freud as he has the adventures of Hunter S. Thompson, effectively wedding a look to the journalist’s brand of gonzo storytelling. 

Lately, he’s painted a series of extinct animals.

Book Banning Series in Crankshaft Comic Strip

From The Daily Cartoonist. 

Tom Batiuk, creator of the tremendously popular Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean comic strips, has created a compelling storyline that illuminates the challenges librarians and store owners currently face around book banning. 

 The series began August 26 [2024] in the Crankshaft comic strip and continues through October. 

Ruben Bolling Profile in The New Yorker

From The New Yorker. 

“Tom the Dancing Bug,” which Ruben Bolling began publishing widely in 1990, has always been free-form and vaudevillian from week to week—original characters, recurring parodies and satires, one-offs, a terrific long-running meta-funny-pages gag.

His illustration style tends toward a tidy clean-line aesthetic, à la “Tintin,” but it morphs to suit whatever he’s up to: hatched and shaded portrait-style depictions of celebrities and politicians; imitations of other artists; fake ads, posters, and informational broadsides. 

Early on, Bolling had “Saturday Night Live,” Mad magazine, and “Mr. Show” in mind as inspirations. 

The strip has become more political over time, especially in recent years, though the past few weeks of U.S. election news—an assassination attempt in one party, the passing of the candidacy torch in the other—has been atypical in its intensity. 

Like all satirists of our era, Bolling has learned to adapt.

Layoffs at SaltWire and Chronicle Herald

From The Globe and Mail.

Layoffs at Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper chain are necessary because the properties were facing bankruptcy, according to the CEO of Postmedia Network Inc., who says his company’s purchase of the troubled assets prevented a “terrible tragedy and travesty” for the region.

In an interview Friday, days after the Toronto-based media company finalized its $1-million purchase of insolvent SaltWire Network Inc. and the Halifax Herald Ltd., Andrew MacLeod said he didn’t have specifics on how many people have so far lost their job. The situation is a “fluid process,” he said.

A day earlier, media union CWA Canada said more than 60 SaltWire staff had been laid off, while nearly 300 remained employed until their future is decided by Postmedia.