tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29357814138826553902024-03-18T05:47:09.243-04:00Bado's blogA blog about caricature, editorial and gag cartoons, comics as well as animation.Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.comBlogger2577125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-77637356642728861492024-03-15T11:52:00.000-04:002024-03-15T11:52:27.630-04:00Cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu risks imprisonment over pandemic cartoon<p>From <a href="https://cartoonistsrights.org/zehra-omeroglu-cartoon-found-obscene/">Cartoonists Rights</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVk6wC6qltdgwz7kx9bI5sg2EdoT5GIVPlQRePLLRnjt6X4gDpuNJpO2b0gSZeNzT9CQQHbWniOIJnzjgUGD8qmBpKZwFCdYTlJj6GP00qI9XmEy8fPiEdLpzAeWALwUpo_iH8Z0hO7z0SrK9SIn_9Byrkb5I7dBStZyILzOLl4UI1klVFtPdByiJqWy0/s2048/1732c6e0-c846-af8b-72c4-1137dd942c83.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1757" data-original-width="2048" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVk6wC6qltdgwz7kx9bI5sg2EdoT5GIVPlQRePLLRnjt6X4gDpuNJpO2b0gSZeNzT9CQQHbWniOIJnzjgUGD8qmBpKZwFCdYTlJj6GP00qI9XmEy8fPiEdLpzAeWALwUpo_iH8Z0hO7z0SrK9SIn_9Byrkb5I7dBStZyILzOLl4UI1klVFtPdByiJqWy0/w640-h550/1732c6e0-c846-af8b-72c4-1137dd942c83.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sex and the pandemic… “At least I didn’t lose my taste and smell…”</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>Under the auspices of Türkiye’s Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services, the Directorate of Child Services convenes a Board for the Protection of Minors from Obscene Publications. <div><br /></div><div>On March 8th, 2024, the board returned a report to the Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance, having at the judge’s request reviewed a cartoon by <b>Zehra Ömeroğlu</b> that appeared in the pages of <i>LeMan</i> humour magazine on November 25th, 2020.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><br />The board have determined that the cartoon violates the relevant law (Article 226 of the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237), finding: “[the cartoon’s] main purpose […] completely contrary to the customs, traditions and moral understanding of our society and that offend[s] modesty, is to create sexual arousal in the viewer and thereby profit from this […]”; and concluding: “[the cartoon] offends the public’s feelings of chastity and modesty, and it has been unanimously deemed that it is against general morality and obscene, as it provokes and exploits desires.”<div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">An unfair conclusion<br /></span></b><br />We take great exception to the way in which Ömeroğlu’s work is characterised, with a definition that is indistinguishable from that of pornography. </div><div><br /></div><div>In context (the long-established and very well-known<i> LeMan</i>, which is categorically not a children’s title) it is incredible to suggest that the cartoon’s “main purpose” was anything other than to amuse the reader.<br /><br />Furthermore, while it is true that the cartoon portrays a couple engaged in a sexual act, as a <a href="https://www-cumhuriyet-com-tr.translate.goog/yazarlar/baris-pehlivan/seksin-mizahindan-hapse-giden-yol-2185046?_x_tr_sl=tr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp">matter of fact</a> it does not portray nudity, only a state of undress, and there are no genitals or sex organs rendered. </div><div><br /></div><div>The art style lacks detail or realism. </div><div><br /></div><div>“Arousal” was very clearly not the intent of the author, a cartoonist whose work focuses largely on sex and female sexuality in a humorous and light-hearted manner.<br /><blockquote><i>“Either my eyesight has deteriorated or the board members can detect the invisible with their special powers […] I cannot see the person they call ‘completely naked’ twice in one sentence on the cartoon they are examining.” </i></blockquote><blockquote>– Barış Pehlivan writes in <i>Cumhuriyet</i>, 13/03/24</blockquote><div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Cartoonists in Türkiye on notice</b></span><br /><br />We understand that the stated aim of the board is to protect children from “the harmful effects” of “an open attack on the common decency and moral cleanliness of society” but also note their explanation that “In determining the violation of general morality and good manners, which is an abstract and variable concept, the rules of conduct related to the democratic social order should be taken as a basis, not the value judgments accepted in a certain segment of the society.”<br /><br />They also concede that the cartoon portrays no “unnatural” behaviour. </div><div><br /></div><div>Nevertheless, if this single cartoon qualifies as such an “open attack”, and one so egregious that it runs counter to the “democratic social order” of the entire nation, the board is setting an alarming precedent with ramifications for every working cartoonist in Türkiye.<div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Unspoken sexism?</b></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/soutiens/alerte-turquie/">Not for the first time</a> we are forced to ask whether there is an unarticulated aspect to this prosecution? </div><div><br /></div><div>Would the same cartoon, published under the same circumstances, have attracted the same judicial action and censorious ruling had it been authored by a man instead of a woman?</div><div><br />Rather than a stern warning about the prospect of children being endangered by exposure to allegedly obscene material, isn’t the message being sent one aimed squarely at Türkiye’s women, and that says, “don’t make raunchy jokes, or we’ll send you to prison?”<br /><br />Although officially non-binding, there is no reason to expect that the court will ignore the findings of the board. </div><div><br /></div><div>In essence it determines Ömeroğlu’s guilt ahead of her trial, expected April 16th, 2024.<br /><br />This would mark the end of a protracted legal process, delayed four times over – first by the pandemic, and then by the apparent inability of the board to come to a swift determination about the cartoon – and that will almost certainly see her criminalised and at risk of a custodial sentence between six months and three years, plus a fine.<br /><br />If a suspended sentence is handed down it will curtail the cartoonist’s freedom of expression going forward, as any future criminal charges will automatically carry with them more severe sentencing options.</div></div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-51612085746014284962024-03-14T00:00:00.002-04:002024-03-15T06:34:48.990-04:00Saltwire files for bankruptcy protection<p>From <a href="https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/12/newspaper-deathwatch-saltwire-group-cartoonists-mackinnon-and-de-adder/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-03-13&utm_campaign=Latest+posts+from+The+Daily+Cartoonist">The Daily Cartoonist</a>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXpNyKXA-IfKqJMVGfs23HYHbJ5ZNsziaycC8j809_dg7XukyzvAO3d-rKUO6fJICECfi0FaIkXXh-_x21kvJnFj0V22QQPI_R30Wjbm5sH27AahxEQJRfYyP3C2wwVns0D0LuIZpD8UP6V9ydpea5GjFPE7VO25ubUVltQ__S5Yg3hOFAorjd1ghJyOt/s1442/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-14%20a%CC%80%2021.44.19.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1442" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXpNyKXA-IfKqJMVGfs23HYHbJ5ZNsziaycC8j809_dg7XukyzvAO3d-rKUO6fJICECfi0FaIkXXh-_x21kvJnFj0V22QQPI_R30Wjbm5sH27AahxEQJRfYyP3C2wwVns0D0LuIZpD8UP6V9ydpea5GjFPE7VO25ubUVltQ__S5Yg3hOFAorjd1ghJyOt/w640-h522/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-14%20a%CC%80%2021.44.19.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>A private equity fund is initiating insolvency proceedings against Atlantic newspaper owner SaltWire Network Inc., claiming it owes tens of millions of dollars after several years of mismanagement.<br /><br />The SaltWire Network‘s major daily newspapers are<i> The Chronicle Herald</i> (Halifax), the <i>Cape Breton Pos</i>t, <i>The Telegram</i> (St. Johns) and <i>The Guardian</i> (Charlottetown).<br /><br /><a href="https://www.saltwire.com/author/bruce-mackinnon-8151/"><b>Bruce MacKinnon</b></a> and freelancer <a href="https://www.saltwire.com/author/michael-de-adder-8152/"><b>Michael de Adder</b></a> are the main editorial cartoonists who could be affected by the newspaper group’s troubles.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLzSVeyK_aeL0-MvRDUIXfyeCzmWvhQ2p5ZoGQg9HFJMgzuIVWO6xj60IQs4a2qvbgGRWoIAIQx-nW0_eAmwK6D8cjxrmGwLuLLjBt0RayzFevkYdVSVer1lwhEsW2fmj-zWJqocoQVqvDVS6AnfF-G_KjTU5dU0j4lIsk8gzetCn1ijkfKDv1dT3n6sPL/s569/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-09-49-48-More-bad-news-THE-deEP-STATE.png.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="569" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLzSVeyK_aeL0-MvRDUIXfyeCzmWvhQ2p5ZoGQg9HFJMgzuIVWO6xj60IQs4a2qvbgGRWoIAIQx-nW0_eAmwK6D8cjxrmGwLuLLjBt0RayzFevkYdVSVer1lwhEsW2fmj-zWJqocoQVqvDVS6AnfF-G_KjTU5dU0j4lIsk8gzetCn1ijkfKDv1dT3n6sPL/w640-h554/Screenshot-2024-03-12-at-09-49-48-More-bad-news-THE-deEP-STATE.png.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Michael de Adder noted the problem on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/michaeldeadder/posts">his Patreon page</a> under the heading of <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/more-bad-news-100229980?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link">More Bad News</a>: <br /><br /><blockquote><i>Last month I lost my biggest client [Washington Post]. It left me with a 25% of my income intact.</i> </blockquote><blockquote><i>This month my second biggest client is applying for bankrupcy protection. I’m not sure where this leaves me yet. Not in a great place.</i> </blockquote><blockquote><i>I recently asked my third biggest client for a reasonable raise. Not sure they can afford it.</i> </blockquote><blockquote><i>Three years ago I had a diversified clientele that could weather a bit of this. But I had to give it all up for a job that was supposed to be stable. I was supposed to be in a better position.</i> </blockquote><blockquote><i>It left me vulnerable.<br /><br />What can you do?</i></blockquote><br />Michael continues to survive <a href="https://www.senecajournalism.ca/canadian-journalists-path-to-happiness-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic-and-media-cuts/">a hard knock life</a>.<br />Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-4376277568314400802024-03-13T06:50:00.000-04:002024-03-13T06:50:36.994-04:00A review of Angouleme '24<p>Dean Simons in <a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-24-angouleme-2024-was-quieter-but-no-less-busy/?fbclid=IwAR3HX1j8UUi4pHTTO-0c9bZGE_euIPotXa6_ypyYTzk-Q8AJXuG3a40giIg">Comics Beat</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMmsdgqWczu1xyznkt7tzGOk5J2N0waa9U8VUniv6ct0zJpcDZzN_p_olK0UZRccHJI8an_j2bKyEbhmM0w6oJrCUzN6Pm6MB0E4LfFALDvzRaZQ1grZt1qJ_fhHxkiIuf3E-GXEuRWz0XQ2lQ2HXOlbgKAI4_-p37RQo6YOKL3pw-Ko-M8ZKn3ZaY-6P/s1200/IMG_8343-1-e1708624151835.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="1200" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMmsdgqWczu1xyznkt7tzGOk5J2N0waa9U8VUniv6ct0zJpcDZzN_p_olK0UZRccHJI8an_j2bKyEbhmM0w6oJrCUzN6Pm6MB0E4LfFALDvzRaZQ1grZt1qJ_fhHxkiIuf3E-GXEuRWz0XQ2lQ2HXOlbgKAI4_-p37RQo6YOKL3pw-Ko-M8ZKn3ZaY-6P/w640-h318/IMG_8343-1-e1708624151835.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>If there is one thing you can guarantee about the <a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-official-selection-2024/">Angoulême International Comics Festival</a>, it’s that you will seldom have enough time to catch your breath – and that remained true for 2024. <div><br /></div><div>While comparatively quieter than the intense record-breaking crowds of the 50th-anniversary extravaganza last year, some 200,000 people still made their way to the self-proclaimed French capital of comics. </div><div><br /></div><div>As always, there were plentiful exhibitions, publishers, creators, and books to catch your eye and empty your wallet.</div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-11758468324971436302024-03-11T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-11T00:00:00.143-04:00Basil Wolverton Collection donated to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum<p>From <a href="https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2023/07/07/new-acquisition-basil-wolverton-collection/?fbclid=IwAR3frUkpZQPJZ5tOFEzzwv1EWdSr3XuKjb0nWQ8YZ0h9bXN8fgLMhamNi_Y">The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHolyrf4tswb24hfJ6jjjxhPmAQsYNLfAs1VY1T6KnsQ2DcnulZGPtq4ezJxyE9GzCtzVEjy14WkJffyxMFd94qkrh5TavWbxQGuK-h9aR7ihc5hcw6Ubj2s0KfZn3JKYGH5rebiW51jbUf_7CU5l0ADgO0howjH73qAqJeC2NVsl943ABt5M6yTyeQLYt/s500/51-Ek+GfQBL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="377" height="827" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHolyrf4tswb24hfJ6jjjxhPmAQsYNLfAs1VY1T6KnsQ2DcnulZGPtq4ezJxyE9GzCtzVEjy14WkJffyxMFd94qkrh5TavWbxQGuK-h9aR7ihc5hcw6Ubj2s0KfZn3JKYGH5rebiW51jbUf_7CU5l0ADgO0howjH73qAqJeC2NVsl943ABt5M6yTyeQLYt/w624-h827/51-Ek+GfQBL.jpg" width="624" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Monte Wolverton</b> has donated a significant collection of his cartoonist father <b>Basil Wolverton</b>’s archives, ephemera, and some original art to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div>Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) was best known for his contributions to <i>Mad</i> magazine and <i>Timely Comics</i> (the pre-cursor to Marvel Comics), and his characters Powerhouse Pepper and Spacehawk. </div><div><br /></div><div>Self-described as a “Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet”, Wolverton’s idiosyncratic and frequently-grotesque style stood out among his peers, and gained him cult following among future generations of cartoonists. </div><div><br /></div><div>In 1946, Wolverton’s work was introduced to a national newspaper reading audience when he won a contest to depict “Lena The Hyena, the World’s Ugliest Woman” for <b>Al Capp</b>’s <i>Li’l Abner</i> comic strip (<a href="https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/13/lena-the-hyena/">read more</a>).</div><br />This collection, meticulously organized, preserved and donated by his family, contains roughs and page layouts for his comics, fan mail, personal and business correspondence, photographs, juvenilia, ephemera, newspaper articles and other publicity, and high-resolution negatives and copies of various pieces. <div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTIOVFk0UCa8WyrvsjFOTJCxZ2tLHU4Yid6sR8yQ-10gTxk0OHN8erjsPPX3Cb8apXvb9cv3ew2nMBobavkoLjlIAXjf8MDRA4dUFazhQJ64wXZ_JI3rK0PF8wTi9i7FXH7inqI-okMks5A9S_PQUtMCdNwbBEQAHgPxZLfhc_jPYjLsLZkhAhsS_m68G/s1050/Basils-Diaries.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1050" data-original-width="1050" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTIOVFk0UCa8WyrvsjFOTJCxZ2tLHU4Yid6sR8yQ-10gTxk0OHN8erjsPPX3Cb8apXvb9cv3ew2nMBobavkoLjlIAXjf8MDRA4dUFazhQJ64wXZ_JI3rK0PF8wTi9i7FXH7inqI-okMks5A9S_PQUtMCdNwbBEQAHgPxZLfhc_jPYjLsLZkhAhsS_m68G/w640-h640/Basils-Diaries.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Of particular note are Wolverton’s personal daily journals from 1923 to 1925 and 1941 to 1974, as well as a notebook containing short stories and sketches he created between ages nine and eleven.<br /><br />“This collection offers a fascinating window into the comic book business in the 1930s through the early ‘50s,” said his son, Monte Wolverton, “with correspondence from editors (including Stan Lee) who were offering direction and advice. </div><div><br /></div><div>Such specifics may be less documented for other comic artists who were not working remotely as my father was on the West Coast.” </div><div><br /></div><div>Also among the correspondence are “rejection slips from nearly every major magazine in the United States from the 1940s and ‘50s”.</div><br />Wolverton’s unique sense of humor, hobbies, and perspective on the world are reflected in the collection. <div><br /></div><div>“It’s a rare delight to get this level of insight into the development, daily musings, and professional journey of a cartoonist,” said Caitlin McGurk, Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art, </div><div><br /></div><div>“Wolverton’s work is frequently requested by our patrons and researchers, and we’re so grateful to his family for entrusting us with the preservation of his legacy.”<br /><br />“I consider the Billy Ireland to be to be the number one institution in the United States for the history of comic artists and cartoonists—designed to be accessible to scholars and researchers” said Monte Wolverton. </div><div><br /></div><div>“I have great confidence in head curator Jenny Robb and the highly professional staff!”<br /><br />Patrons can access this collection by visiting the Lucy Shelton Caswell Reading Room. </div><div>Please contact <a href="mailto:cartoons@osu.edu">cartoons@osu.edu</a> to set up an appointment. </div><div>To learn more about the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum visit cartoons.osu.edu.<div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-43856183625251964002024-03-07T06:48:00.003-05:002024-03-07T11:49:13.910-05:00The "phony" in Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s ad<p>From <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/06/queensland-symphony-orchestra-ai-facebook-ad-criticism">The Guardian</a>.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKhqxB10olYKSlKPu9dtQ4whrNSx_Iqj-P4pF7kyAXSFBcKyoNNyTeAhNCwRZfT-s5Rbo2I4M5qJG03vcckFUuulJYrwPk2cgPrEh5CdinNfjuFDrKAMiG7d1hIKPuZtmiG6KcCHn2pqqROtAbHtnqdNGNmfAX0k44M7CP02MCwtn9EqVmMQGLUuxjM62/s1616/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-07%20a%CC%80%2006.12.35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1616" data-original-width="1290" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKhqxB10olYKSlKPu9dtQ4whrNSx_Iqj-P4pF7kyAXSFBcKyoNNyTeAhNCwRZfT-s5Rbo2I4M5qJG03vcckFUuulJYrwPk2cgPrEh5CdinNfjuFDrKAMiG7d1hIKPuZtmiG6KcCHn2pqqROtAbHtnqdNGNmfAX0k44M7CP02MCwtn9EqVmMQGLUuxjM62/w510-h640/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-07%20a%CC%80%2006.12.35.png" width="510" /></a></div><br />A ‘poorly considered’ use of AI has resulted in a perplexing number of fingers – and a large amount of mockery.<br /><br />The couple’s tangled fingers are both too large and too many; there’s a strange sheen making them look more like wax dolls; and then there’s the clothes: she in a tulle gown encrusted with jewels, he in a tuxedo – and, simultaneously, a tulle gown encrusted with jewels. <div><br /></div><div>Also: she has a large cube on her lap.<br /><br /> It was apparently created by someone who has never seen an orchestra play, and imagines it as rows of violinists seated in the audience, many playing with three hands or one hand or no hands at all.<div><span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><br />The picture, shared by the QSO on 22 February, appears to be sourced from stock image aggregator <a href="https://www.shutterstock.com/fr/image-generated/two-people-having-date-indoor-classical-2428639349">Shutterstock</a>, where it is listed under the AI prompt “two people having a date at a indoor classical music romantic concert”.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnF59lfVPyYO7JdTIyN4GBENHHcbeWO1FvRJonArR4W8LgA1MwQNkgsdAQF-381zSuA6PSMvfTm0GvE9lraTc9ztwzlLL7DuHxcWJ0h3-7LgpcnVU9UAxvvmPudbk8ib9pSWRJUS2tSm4uX-MzdY6-P2rOJW9yicvCvuBlpD93wDQe8olKFVMbBbymTjml/s2848/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-07%20a%CC%80%2006.23.06.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="2848" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnF59lfVPyYO7JdTIyN4GBENHHcbeWO1FvRJonArR4W8LgA1MwQNkgsdAQF-381zSuA6PSMvfTm0GvE9lraTc9ztwzlLL7DuHxcWJ0h3-7LgpcnVU9UAxvvmPudbk8ib9pSWRJUS2tSm4uX-MzdY6-P2rOJW9yicvCvuBlpD93wDQe8olKFVMbBbymTjml/w640-h296/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-07%20a%CC%80%2006.23.06.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />On Tuesday, industry union the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) called it “the worst AI generated artwork we’ve seen”.<br /><br />“It is inappropriate, unprofessional and disrespectful to audiences and the musicians of the QSO,” they added. </div><div><br /></div><div>“Creative workers and audiences deserve better from arts organisations.”</div><br />The post also attracted criticism in its replies. “Next time pay photographers,” one comment reads. Another called it “terrible – literally an arts organisation not using artists.”<br /><br />Classical music industry blog Slipped Disc was the first to report on the ad, claiming it had resulted in “uproar” and “fury” among the orchestra’s players.<br /><br />Queensland Symphony Orchestra did not comment on that claim but justified their use of the AI image in a statement to Guardian Australia: <div><i></i><blockquote><i>“At QSO, we encourage exploration, innovation, experimentation and the adoption of new technologies across all facets of the business. From time to time we will use new marketing tools and techniques as we are an orchestra for all Queenslanders.”</i><div><div><p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><a href="https://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2022/09/ai-can-now-create-any-image-in-seconds.html">AI-generated imagery</a> has stirred much debate and outrage since its rise in recent years due to the accessibility of consumer tools such as Dall-E and Midjourney. </div><div><br /></div><div>Much of the controversy revolves around AI’s potential to devalue or plagiarise human artists.</div><br />In the past 18 months, at least two art prizes have made headlines after their winners were found to have generated or altered their works with AI. </div><div><br /></div><div>“I’m not going to apologise for it,” said <b>Jason M Allen</b>, who took home an award for digital artists at the Colorado State Fair in 2022. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheHVJQVVfoMr0r5spt20BWrLYmdZ9JgC_do-kPURqVZ8CsgmUFvP9_QS65If7cA0c26Y5s9yNPPwZtKvuZCdp5RTrLjaSDEAG6KsFKAGR06JKl1hdxPDereGk3n9OKz3XD606yF78kiQ1KFp5BeQNabt2G4Yr0hFg46m0UBctSczGsKv-XOFJnuNyysBTJ/s275/Unknown.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheHVJQVVfoMr0r5spt20BWrLYmdZ9JgC_do-kPURqVZ8CsgmUFvP9_QS65If7cA0c26Y5s9yNPPwZtKvuZCdp5RTrLjaSDEAG6KsFKAGR06JKl1hdxPDereGk3n9OKz3XD606yF78kiQ1KFp5BeQNabt2G4Yr0hFg46m0UBctSczGsKv-XOFJnuNyysBTJ/w640-h426/Unknown.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” submitted by Jason Allen</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>“I won, and I didn’t break any rules.”<br /><br />In 2023, German artist <b>Boris Eldagsen</b> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/17/photographer-admits-prize-winning-image-was-ai-generated">won a prize at the Sony world photography awards</a> for an AI-generated photograph of two women in black and white. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6QIezCwWLPOQRJcqAF-2iNHwshPC5rgKbZdfkUwihlqo2I-Iwx7yVcWstj2EAizY8_PleNAJZVACbqxqKzOo_Ff6zGYL2y4scJXtdz8pIyG5yLL8A__DHR7B5Xf8ZVtMnnLjrrbtaixUKX5mHqmjjCTU1H0txJSmPhK1xpS30HWuYGBsFcYHoQhRd0LfM/s1758/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-07%20a%CC%80%2006.41.03.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1758" data-original-width="1412" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6QIezCwWLPOQRJcqAF-2iNHwshPC5rgKbZdfkUwihlqo2I-Iwx7yVcWstj2EAizY8_PleNAJZVACbqxqKzOo_Ff6zGYL2y4scJXtdz8pIyG5yLL8A__DHR7B5Xf8ZVtMnnLjrrbtaixUKX5mHqmjjCTU1H0txJSmPhK1xpS30HWuYGBsFcYHoQhRd0LfM/w514-h640/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-03-07%20a%CC%80%2006.41.03.png" width="514" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>He later admitted he had “applied as a cheeky monkey” in order to incite discourse around the ethics of AI – and refused to accept the award.<div><p></p></div></div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-14339751175074267042024-03-05T00:00:00.001-05:002024-03-05T00:00:00.173-05:00Mr. Fish accused of antisemitism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiij__alaxPW-VoceSfYU1CrQ3PZngqoL9g5MeLj8YMJGSl9CvRIifYqP7El0J_uqwe8S6GYk8-g_F8rnHcO8Z82CoMGiVRpUgokJQpjt72yD4Z_a_bITh6RYeCu50isseOyWs-gfkAdX1rtG_etEfi8v0HlhusDo-CYuVGSx6p2rRRoxhMpKXv2MmttL_c/s1024/blood-1024x860.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1024" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiij__alaxPW-VoceSfYU1CrQ3PZngqoL9g5MeLj8YMJGSl9CvRIifYqP7El0J_uqwe8S6GYk8-g_F8rnHcO8Z82CoMGiVRpUgokJQpjt72yD4Z_a_bITh6RYeCu50isseOyWs-gfkAdX1rtG_etEfi8v0HlhusDo-CYuVGSx6p2rRRoxhMpKXv2MmttL_c/w640-h538/blood-1024x860.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The denunciation of cartoons by <a href="https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/dwayne-booth">Dwayne Booth</a> aka <b>Mr. Fish</b> by a DC based blog and the leveling of accusations of antisemitism has led to safety measures at the University of Pennsylvania where he is an adjunct lecturer.<div><br /></div><div>As the conflict in Gaza continues, reports of both antisemitic and Islamophobic racism are spiking all over the world. </div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div>From <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-lecturer-political-cartoons-antisemitism-controversy">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a>.</div><div><br /></div>Campus discourse about antisemitism is escalating just weeks into the spring semester, with a Penn lecturer defending himself after his political cartoons were publicly denounced by Interim Penn President Larry Jameson.<br /><br />Annenberg School for Communication lecturer and cartoonist Dwayne Booth — who publishes political cartoons under the pen name Mr. Fish — has come under fire for his artwork of Israel, President Joe Biden’s stance on the Israel-Hamas war, pro-Israeli figures, and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. <div><br /></div><div>Several of the cartoons — including one which resembles the antisemitic trope of blood libel — have been denounced as antisemitic by critics, and Jameson condemned Booth's art in a University <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-antisemitism-cartoons-jameson-statement">statement</a> published on Feb. 4.</div><br />Jameson said the loss of life in Gaza and Israel should not be “fodder for satire,” calling the cartoons “reprehensible” and “painful to see" while affirming Penn’s “bedrock commitment” to<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/01/penn-faculty-senate-resolution-academic-freedom"> academic freedom</a>.<br /><br />“We also have a responsibility to challenge what we find offensive, and to do so acknowledge the right and ability of members of our community to express their views, however loathsome we find them,” he wrote. <br /><br />In an interview with <i>The Daily Pennsylvanian</i>, Booth defended his cartoons from mounting backlash among Jewish community members, adding that he received no communication from the University suggesting that his job was endangered because of the cartoons. <br /><br />A University spokesperson referred the DP to Jameson’s Sunday evening statement, and an Annenberg spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. <div><br /></div><div>Jameson’s statement came in the wake of a story published by <i><a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/penn-lecturer-is-behind-grotesque-anti-semitic-cartoons/">Washington Free Beacon</a></i> on Feb. 1 that criticized the cartoons, calling them “grotesque" and "anti-semitic."</div><br />Since Jameson spoke out, Booth told the DP he has received backlash online and via the phone, including death threats and threats to his family. <div><br /></div><div>In response, he alerted Penn's Division for Public Safety. </div><div><br /></div><div>A DPS spokesperson declined to comment, though his email has been removed from the Annenberg website and Path@Penn no longer displays the time and location of a class he is teaching this semester.</div><br />Booth said that the columns are not new and have been publicly available on political columnist Robert Scheer’s <a href="https://scheerpost.com/">website</a> as well as Booth’s professional <a href="https://clowncrack.com">website</a> since they were published starting in October of last year, after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.<br /><br />He added that the illustrations were originally created to accompany columns by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. <div><br /></div><div>Booth said that the columns provide the necessary context to understand the cartoons, and that they are open to misinterpretation when depicted by themselves.<br /><br />Still, Jewish community members said that Booth's cartoons crossed a line, serving to propogate harmful messages rather than convey a nuanced opinion about the Israel-Hamas conflict. </div><br />“Scholars strive to understand hateful words, images, and actions and their power in the past and the present. <div><br /></div><div>But we don't create materials of our own that amplify messages of hate,” professor of modern Jewish history Joshua Teplitsky wrote in a statement to the DP.<br /><br />"I worry that provocations do more to polarize than they do to foster discussion and debate,” he continued. <br /><br />Jameson's statement also condemned a Booth cartoon that depicts photos of Jewish prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs opposing the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. <br /><br />Booth said that he created the cartoon, which is titled “Never Again and Again and Again,” to accompany a <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/31/israels-genocide-betrays-the-holocaust/">Dec. 31 column</a> by Hedges titled “Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust,” which compares Israel’s treatment of Gazans to Nazi treatment of Jewish people. </div><br />“By obscuring and falsifying the lessons of the Holocaust, we perpetuate the evil that defined it,” Hedges wrote in the column. <br /><br />According to Booth, the cartoons have produced meaningful exchanges since they were published and have only recently been described as antisemitic. <div><br /></div><div>He took issue with Jameson's description of Booth as using historical atrocities faced by Jewish people as “fodder for satire.”<br /><br />“To say that to use that situation as fodder for satire means he doesn't know what satire is,” Booth said. </div><div><br /></div><div>“Because satire [is] most effective at times of great tragic events, atrocities, and debates about what atrocities are public policy.” <br /><br />Wharton junior and Penn Hillel Vice President of Israel Engagement Sadie Waldbaum told the DP that the cartoons “crossed a line.” </div><div><br /></div><div>She added that she was particularly concerned with his depiction of Jews drinking blood, describing them as rooted in “medieval antisemitism.”</div><br />Waldbaum specifically referred to Booth’s cartoon titled "The Anti-Semite," which depicts three individuals drinking blood out of glasses labeled "Gaza." <div><br /></div><div>The cartoon appears to resemble the antisemitic trope of blood libel — which suggests that Jews use the blood of other groups for religious purposes.<br /><br />Teplitsky also expressed concern, saying that he was “taken aback” by Booth’s cartoon. </div><div><br /></div><div>He added that the cartoons draw upon tropes with “deep antisemitic histories.” <br /><br />The trope of blood libel has been “used extensively in similar cartoons by the Nazis to dehumanize Jews, and has no place in political discourse," College sophomore Morris Hakim said. <br /><br />Executive Director at Penn Hillel Rabbi Gabe Greenberg wrote in a statement to the DP that the conflict between Israel and Palestinians was "complex and complicated," requiring Penn students to confront "nuanced perspectives that will help them understand and learn more.”</div><br />Still, Greenberg said the “The Anti-Semite” cartoon did not convey one of these nuanced perspectives. <br /><br />“Instead, it is trafficking in a millennium-old antisemitic trope, the 'blood libel,' which has a dark history of being used to demonize and dehumanize Jewish people,” he wrote. <br /><br />He expressed concern that “this type of speech contributes to a sense shared by many Jewish students that Penn is not a wholly welcoming environment for them.”<br /><br />Two students currently taking Booth’s class — both of whom were granted anonymity due to fear of retaliation — told the DP that Booth has acknowledged the backlash. <div><br /></div><div>The first time that many students had heard about the backlash Booth was receiving was when he sent an email explaining the situation, one student said.</div><br />“I don't think the intent was to endanger anyone, but his intent is definitely to catch people's eyes and make them think about it,” a second student, who praised Booth as a lecturer, said. <div><br /></div><div>“His job is to produce thought provoking content. And that's obviously what he did."<br /><br />The first student added that while Booth did not express concern over the controversy in class, he did tell them that he wanted to make sure they felt “safe and secure in the classroom.”<br /><br />“I did appreciate kind of how forthcoming he was and the way that he's not let that affect the class,” the student said. <br /><br />Booth reaffirmed his students' perspectives, describing “the whole point of satire" being to "start conversations not end conversations.” </div><div> <br /> Booth also said he did not show students the cartoons in class: "There's no real reason to bring those into the classroom because we're all engaging with this stuff in our own lives.”<br /><br />“It's not up to me to try to skew one’s political belief one way or the other,” he continued.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQpNAsWN1nuuuTk-c3j5hWS-Gg5lxO6kX7Hx9s4Qrm860cxJJC1YnmpRQ50Iv62OCdiy2aodf71nDjEebwsHgpwkDn8qnIkDGmMMkeGHs1p1SZfSVDAnJty4SuaSl7QKh5LsBNt0wsH2BbMUYAWklU7ID6s6_KVid9cCzCosUpOPcwU5ChpWPcindkBLk/s1364/Quiet-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1364" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQpNAsWN1nuuuTk-c3j5hWS-Gg5lxO6kX7Hx9s4Qrm860cxJJC1YnmpRQ50Iv62OCdiy2aodf71nDjEebwsHgpwkDn8qnIkDGmMMkeGHs1p1SZfSVDAnJty4SuaSl7QKh5LsBNt0wsH2BbMUYAWklU7ID6s6_KVid9cCzCosUpOPcwU5ChpWPcindkBLk/w506-h640/Quiet-1.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>On Monday, Booth released a cartoon entitled “Quiet!”depicting Uncle Sam putting his hand over a person’s mouth. <br /><br />In a followup to its initial story, the Washington Free Beacon published a story criticizing Jameson’s “tepid” statement for not referring to Booth by name. <div><br /></div><div>The story included the day that Booth would next be teaching a class. </div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-19238106340527804042024-02-26T10:00:00.000-05:002024-02-26T10:00:00.129-05:0024th World Press Freedom Canada International Editorial Cartoon Competition<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHE5_wMsJ1l2nHEhyVGddx5s_JdbVGP3J0bKCx7lFjzIUyZnPo6F81tQ-4cJm9ZurVZS1fh_F33WjQyjVunmnw2pYIZlVC9opqrLh9nN7uUqYzvZ5byVng8kK5NAxlLuSQZJRWcrNB2mwi-oGaXy_matqH5DwbJVPth2LpDWfW356syejCZspdUr7K0-Z/s720/24th%20contest%20poster%20lr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="720" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHE5_wMsJ1l2nHEhyVGddx5s_JdbVGP3J0bKCx7lFjzIUyZnPo6F81tQ-4cJm9ZurVZS1fh_F33WjQyjVunmnw2pYIZlVC9opqrLh9nN7uUqYzvZ5byVng8kK5NAxlLuSQZJRWcrNB2mwi-oGaXy_matqH5DwbJVPth2LpDWfW356syejCZspdUr7K0-Z/w640-h576/24th%20contest%20poster%20lr.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The theme of the 24th International Editorial Cartoon Competition is:<p></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Artificial Intelligence: yes or no?</span></i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Some believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will solve all our problems while it inspires apocalyptic talk in others.</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">AI can help journalists gather information, but “deep fakes” and voice simulators capable of generating believable audio segments, can sow doubt about the authenticity of content and put democracy at risk.</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">On the other hand, some politicians brandish the term “fake news” to denounce opposing opinions or deny reality.</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, using AI to generate illustrations on demand robs artists of their work and infringes on their copyright.</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Fortunately, AI hasn’t yet figured the number of fingers on one hand.</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span></span></i></span></p><a name='more'></a><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Competition rules </b></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Three prizes will be awarded: </span></p><ul>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">First prize: $1500 plus a Certificate from the Canadian Commission for UNESCO </span></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Second prize: $1000 </span></li>
<li style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Third prize: $500</span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">All sums are in Canadian dollars. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Ten additional cartoons will receive an Award of Excellence, which are not remunerated. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Only <b>one cartoon</b> may be submitted by each participant, either in colour or black and white. It must <b>not</b> have won an award previously. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">World Press Freedom Canada reserves the right to use the winning cartoons for promotion of the Cartoon Competition. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The winners of the Cartoon Competition will b</span><span style="font-family: arial;">e announc</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">ed on Thursday May 2, 2024, the eve of World Press Freedom Day. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The names of the winners and their cartoons will be posted on our <a href="https://worldpressfreedomcanada.ca/"><span style="color: #666666; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">website</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The deadline for reception of the cartoon is midnight (Eastern Daylight Saving Time), <b>Friday, April 5, 2024</b>. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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</span></p><p style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><b>Please submit your cartoon to</b>: <span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://worldpressfreedomcanada.ca/cartoon-submissions/">https://worldpressfreedomcanada.ca/cartoon-submissions/</a></span></span></p>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-37538872123882283262024-02-23T10:41:00.000-05:002024-02-23T10:41:00.870-05:00Harvard Faculty & Staff reposts antisemitic cartoon<p>From <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/02/21/harvard-antisemitic-cartoon-controversy/">The Washington Post</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MNjWDuZarqVm-XZbQ-oLxuJTNw9YeBQptKoTJnspLaHE-hZt3BvXGa3rFkT1b2wVHPJQfHRGHIhhvEydEF3DvNDF8waxjI4-Anu2l8u5J_fM2DGwThEadKm6e7__mXeWDtYNdlgqaxosiC7Ndn1HTC-n_dMVjvUZFlOvm2PG1heQwHbhBVMR0feVGIpw/s1024/GGtjIEUWAAE58T4.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="664" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MNjWDuZarqVm-XZbQ-oLxuJTNw9YeBQptKoTJnspLaHE-hZt3BvXGa3rFkT1b2wVHPJQfHRGHIhhvEydEF3DvNDF8waxjI4-Anu2l8u5J_fM2DGwThEadKm6e7__mXeWDtYNdlgqaxosiC7Ndn1HTC-n_dMVjvUZFlOvm2PG1heQwHbhBVMR0feVGIpw/w416-h640/GGtjIEUWAAE58T4.jpeg" width="416" /></a></div><br />Harvard University is again embroiled in a controversy over antisemitism on campus, after student groups and a faculty group shared an antisemitic cartoon.<br /><br />In a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2024/the-antisemitic-cartoon/">statement </a>late Tuesday, Harvard interim president Alan M. Garber condemned the cartoon, calling it “flagrantly antisemitic,” after it was shared on social media by two student groups — the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African American Resistance Organization — and reposted by Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine.<span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><br /><div>Garber said the cartoon depicted a hand labeled with a Star of David with a dollar sign in the middle holding nooses that were tied around the necks of an Arab man and a Black man. </div><div><br /></div><div>Screenshots of the cartoon appeared to show that the men were boxer and antiwar activist Muhammad Ali and former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. <div><br /></div><div>The cartoon was shared as part of an infographic on the historical links between pro-Palestinian and civil rights groups.</div><br />The student groups have since taken down the image and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3lqmDVp0hN/?igsh=MWcyYjBwZTljODhiaA%3D%3D">apologized </a>for posting it, saying in a joint statement that it violated their standards and values. <div><br /></div><div>They have since reposted the infographic without the offensive image. <div><br /></div><div>The staff and faculty group also apologized and retracted its post.<br /><br />But the criticism has not abated, with one Harvard student posting that the incident highlighted why “Jewish students don’t feel safe in class.”<br /><br />On Tuesday, Garber — who was appointed after his predecessor, Claudine Gay, resigned amid criticism of her congressional testimony on antisemitism at Harvard and over allegations of plagiarism — said the school will seek to “better understand who was responsible for the posting and to determine what further steps are warranted.”</div><div><br /></div>Incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia have risen on college campuses, where the war in Gaza is a heated topic.</div><div><br /></div>Harvard and other universities are the target of a Republican-led congressional investigation into allegations that they are not doing enough to combat antisemitism on campus. <div><br /></div><div>On Friday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce served subpoenas to Harvard officials to compel the university to turn over more documents, including details from meetings of its two most powerful governing boards, and all communications about antisemitism involving the governing boards, as part of its investigation.<br /><br />The subpoenas, which experts called unprecedented, raised questions about academic freedom, safety on campus and the boundaries of free speech.</div><br />The House committee on Monday <a href="https://twitter.com/EdWorkforceCmte/status/1759695994722177032">condemned</a> the cartoon and said, “This repugnant antisemitism should have no place in our society, much less on Harvard’s faculty.”<div><br /></div>The <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/21/walter-johnson-resigns-psc/"><i>Harvard Crimson</i></a> on Wednesday reported that Walter Johnson, a professor of history and of African and African American studies, resigned from the group and as a faculty adviser to the Palestine Solidarity Committee amid the backlash. <div><br /></div><div>It was not immediately clear whether his resignation was caused by the controversy over the groups’ use of the cartoon. </div><div><br /></div><div>The committee told the <i>Crimson</i> in a statement that Johnson’s term as adviser was due to end soon and that conversations about his stepping down “were ongoing.” </div><div><br /></div><div>Johnson did not immediately respond to an overnight request for comment from <i>The Washington Post</i>.</div><br />Garber said in his statement that “Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab” members of the Harvard community “have reported feeling targeted, rejected, and ostracized.”<br /><br />“Reckless provocation draws attention without advancing understanding,” he said. <div><br /></div><div>“The war and its effects on the lives of people directly affected by the conflict demand our profound concern and sympathy.”</div><br />Online, many students and staff and faculty members condemned the cartoon and framed the incident as part of a wider problem around antisemitism at Harvard.<br /><br />Harvard Hillel, the Jewish student center, called the cartoon “deeply disturbing” and said it expected the university to respond. <div><br /></div><div>“This post follows an alarming increase in antisemitism on our campus in recent weeks,” it said.<br /><br />On Wednesday, a group of alumni filed a lawsuit in federal district court calling for an injunction ordering Harvard to take concrete steps to “end antisemitism on its campus and hold accountable those who allowed antisemitism to fester.” </div><div><br /></div><div>The complaint also claims that their Harvard degrees have been diminished in value by Harvard’s failure to address the problem, and seeks compensation.<br /><br />Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement the lawsuit reflects the growing outrage alumni at many U.S. campuses feel. </div><div><br /></div><div>She blamed “radical” faculty and “impotent” responses from administrators for turning colleges into “hate centers.”</div><br />A spokesman for Harvard declined to comment on the lawsuit.<br /><br />Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate student at Harvard Divinity School who is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/02/04/harvard-students-return-turmoil-aftermath/?itid=lk_inline_manual_34">suing Harvard over antisemitism</a>, condemned the post on X, formerly known as Twitter. <div><br /></div><div>“Harvard *faculty* just posted an explicitly antisemitic poster depicting a Jewish hand controlling the black mind,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/ShabbosK/status/1759609092782305312">wrote</a> Monday.<br /><br />“With Professors like these, it’s easy to see why we Jewish students don’t feel safe in class,” he added.<br /><br />The student groups said in their post that the original image was created by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights group from the 1960s, and was included in the post out of negligence.</div><br />Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine also apologized Monday. <div><br /></div><div>“It has come to our attention that a post featuring antiquated cartoons which used offensive antisemitic tropes was linked to our account,” the pro-Palestinian collective <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3imAm3OtyU/">wrote on Instagram</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>“We removed the content as soon as it came to our attention.”<br /><br />“We apologize for the hurt that these images have caused and do not condone them in any way,” it said.<br /><br /><br />Susan Svrluga contributed to this report.</div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-59365005450500552612024-02-20T00:00:00.001-05:002024-02-20T00:00:00.135-05:00Jack Higgins 1954-2024<p>From <i><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2024/02/13/jack-higgins-dead-sun-times-cartoonist-chicago-obituary-pulitzer-prize">The Chicago Sun-Times</a></i>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4uhnTAimQ63a-ohdpykAWMOJd1D0YvOBxv2OR-RUsJ5rlxQ1dyuQQrKZr6hjm6mVQn4OSIKjEzM75aYTfT1qDbDHtHxREhwxRabI8qYq1kHBBiZaZaw9eKv9srfaq7XQgnYxrqJrGbySf1JlJquVTJ_x_b9otasXVhG0DMm-2ClJBa0ZcRM6c8OMzQVhyphenhyphen/s1680/90.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1680" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4uhnTAimQ63a-ohdpykAWMOJd1D0YvOBxv2OR-RUsJ5rlxQ1dyuQQrKZr6hjm6mVQn4OSIKjEzM75aYTfT1qDbDHtHxREhwxRabI8qYq1kHBBiZaZaw9eKv9srfaq7XQgnYxrqJrGbySf1JlJquVTJ_x_b9otasXVhG0DMm-2ClJBa0ZcRM6c8OMzQVhyphenhyphen/w640-h426/90.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Jack Higgins</b>, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago <i>Sun-Times</i> editorial cartoonist <span></span>died February 10 after a long illness. <span></span> He was 69.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div>Jack Higgins knew the power of the pen.<br /><br />"Political cartoons are meant to take the mighty and the pompous and cut them down to a more manageable size. Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted," he once wrote about his job.<br /><br />He skewered local and national politicians alike, satirized scandals and offered poignant and absurd takes on city life and ills, especially gun violence.<br /><br />In 1989 he <a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jack-higgins">won the Pulitzer</a> for a collection of cartoons that included a drawing that pictured vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle playing golf while Vietnamese children flee from a napalm attack, with Quayle asking the children, "Mind if I play through?"<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_691RQuH7PNgFzlD5N9GmDO8g9j6WQUqq8Fa10y-s2JNaSO0PakMFnJ9hkRIqmt6h5YTo2GC6hGkjRAVv37vfkq5ajoPzzalmMnRot6hBhOz-QrSNj3YM6et9iYg8Fr4gSk-NZ4jNp-lIA87ecyaVuM3PzGnaM9_SAvVsLjygS8fmg2Qt345oI5_ZmtK/s640/IMG_8529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_691RQuH7PNgFzlD5N9GmDO8g9j6WQUqq8Fa10y-s2JNaSO0PakMFnJ9hkRIqmt6h5YTo2GC6hGkjRAVv37vfkq5ajoPzzalmMnRot6hBhOz-QrSNj3YM6et9iYg8Fr4gSk-NZ4jNp-lIA87ecyaVuM3PzGnaM9_SAvVsLjygS8fmg2Qt345oI5_ZmtK/w640-h480/IMG_8529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mr. Higgins had a stiletto-sharp wit and "the sort of humor that played well at wakes," Crowley said.<br /><br />"He could look at anything and find humor; that was his talent," said Mr. Higgins' sister Patty Crowley.<br /><br />"Following media coverage of health concerns about the butter served on movie theater popcorn, Mr. Higgins drew a cartoon featuring movie critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert in which Ebert hands Siskel a barrel of popcorn and Siskel thinks: 'That's funny, he's never offered me his popcorn before,' " his sister said.<br /><br />Following its publication, Siskel and Ebert each left separate voicemail messages requesting the original drawing.<br /><br />"He gave it to Roger because Roger was with the <i>Sun-Times</i>," his sister said.<br /><br />Mr. Higgins was known for his warmth and kindness and being the highlight of any school group that visited the newsroom and stopped by his drafting table.<br /><br />He woke early and digested the day's news to generate ideas.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHEZj863Vtq6ZOxZMpgjWbT9v8xQhf1-T2qyIGmMc7ce2Xf8tji2x3DDPdkEx2zA9LThY5E9i0_Xt9GHkudcGmqXdYaAvtf3MM7XlsGkeEYXPCEFgVa5i8zzF86Cot-ZiBeFJ41KxkSqiIJl2UpLOVoEF_Z9IV7_YCYEg_0r7nTgHh1gVftHEsrZdD-xm/s840/90.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="840" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHEZj863Vtq6ZOxZMpgjWbT9v8xQhf1-T2qyIGmMc7ce2Xf8tji2x3DDPdkEx2zA9LThY5E9i0_Xt9GHkudcGmqXdYaAvtf3MM7XlsGkeEYXPCEFgVa5i8zzF86Cot-ZiBeFJ41KxkSqiIJl2UpLOVoEF_Z9IV7_YCYEg_0r7nTgHh1gVftHEsrZdD-xm/w640-h444/90.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmAWmYwTUFBkpVi__NtNY_ZE5aU4cFLuVg6_M5Xl169AbO3EYv3owyS1wm9kz1SSKCgwC-d0YJiuTX7vqXaDV6VtaVMek3u68ln1ifJIPDBwCfTsVWUiDAikke_opaYaFER2gAFmxojeHpgdumc_INpMRrVuOK9Hao8RiK39iVLwe3hPpznyEMawQ20msW/s600/Screenshot-2024-02-14-at-07-55-57-WEBP-Image-840-%C3%97-583-pixels.png.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="600" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmAWmYwTUFBkpVi__NtNY_ZE5aU4cFLuVg6_M5Xl169AbO3EYv3owyS1wm9kz1SSKCgwC-d0YJiuTX7vqXaDV6VtaVMek3u68ln1ifJIPDBwCfTsVWUiDAikke_opaYaFER2gAFmxojeHpgdumc_INpMRrVuOK9Hao8RiK39iVLwe3hPpznyEMawQ20msW/w640-h444/Screenshot-2024-02-14-at-07-55-57-WEBP-Image-840-%C3%97-583-pixels.png.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>"I'll figure out what bothers me most about something, and how I can take the issue, turn it around, stand it on its head and stick my tongue out at it, so to speak," he said.<br /><br />His cartoons were turned into the book "My Kind of 'Toon, Chicago Is: Political Cartoons."</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYLefmj3MhiexjSfimJowUxvNpWcE1CnxQkz40utI1_vm1UTWr9h_JpLypccUK0QlqcE_hR2LBA9yZm6FYgAqbxn4bZRB1OlYaDJML23zWa250zlNSI87qLjnPrQ1WmB3QU83AYPWwmoYHsiFxBZ75TbN6-HgE9nOeFAH_r9RbO3WBPm0t7PFmG2Ai1hXi/s1000/815m+rf1GtL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="1000" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYLefmj3MhiexjSfimJowUxvNpWcE1CnxQkz40utI1_vm1UTWr9h_JpLypccUK0QlqcE_hR2LBA9yZm6FYgAqbxn4bZRB1OlYaDJML23zWa250zlNSI87qLjnPrQ1WmB3QU83AYPWwmoYHsiFxBZ75TbN6-HgE9nOeFAH_r9RbO3WBPm0t7PFmG2Ai1hXi/w640-h450/815m+rf1GtL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mr. Higgins was born Aug. 19, 1954, to Maurice James Higgins, a Chicago police commander who worked as attorney on the side, and Helen Egan Higgins, a homemaker who loved to draw and paint and encouraged her kids to do so, too.<br /><br />Mr. Higgins, one of seven siblings who grew up in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side.</div><div><br /></div><div>He took drawing classes in college and met Boston Globe editorial cartoonist Paul Szep, who influenced his career choice, his sister said.<br /><br />After college he served for a year as a telephone hotline crisis counselor with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Washington, D.C.<br /><br />In the late '70s he was an editorial cartoonist for Northwestern University's student newspaper, the <i>Daily Northwestern</i>, though Mr. Higgins didn't attend the university.<br /><br />"My parents had these dreams of me becoming a businessman or a lawyer. I have six brothers and sisters. Two of them are scientists. A couple are lawyers. <div><br /></div><div>My brothers and sisters have degrees from Cambridge University and London School of Economics, the law school of the University of Virginia, University of Chicago business school, and Harvard! </div><div><br /></div><div>And here I come along with my crayons after college," Mr. Higgins wrote about his beginnings at the<i> Sun-Times</i>.</div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-19916799720709634332024-02-19T00:00:00.012-05:002024-02-19T00:00:00.136-05:00"Cartoons do ano 2023" in Xira<p>From Víctor Vélez Chubasco's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/politica666">Facebook page</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh12I5UBRV-aUjQOuWs5SaDCF_BSSs6ohSyJfAdYCAdMcm9T1PzMO-_q7KrN57o-LTdwH2dYH_nnDvV2skaNGt3YZXS_6dpcIsZa-v29YnGOW0b4PTaSqUz1Eknk55Y5rO7J_Z53beOdwDdWs2F8csGyCwOJUbgSv7Hoosa_Rbeot1niyvCAzSIGVZJq04h/s1814/428058419_10229363180518549_214439628581951573_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1814" data-original-width="1284" height="881" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh12I5UBRV-aUjQOuWs5SaDCF_BSSs6ohSyJfAdYCAdMcm9T1PzMO-_q7KrN57o-LTdwH2dYH_nnDvV2skaNGt3YZXS_6dpcIsZa-v29YnGOW0b4PTaSqUz1Eknk55Y5rO7J_Z53beOdwDdWs2F8csGyCwOJUbgSv7Hoosa_Rbeot1niyvCAzSIGVZJq04h/w625-h881/428058419_10229363180518549_214439628581951573_n.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Vila Franca de Xira presents, from February 24 to May 5, <i>CartoonXira</i> curated by António Antunes, at Celeiro da Patriarcal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It features the work of cartoonists <b>António</b>. <b><a href="https://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/andre-carrilho-wins-grand-prize-at.html">Carrilho</a></b>,<b> Cristina</b>, <b>Fazenda</b>, <b>Garcia</b>, <b>Gargalo</b>, <b>Maia</b>, <b>Monteiro</b>, <b>Rodrigo</b>, <b>Salgado</b>, <b>Saraiva</b> and <b>Silva</b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Also presented, <i>Imaginary horizons</i>, a solo exhibition by <b><a href="https://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/happy-70th-bob.html">Chubasco</a></b>.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrSgagaD9bJRsdnJ7mamJiRTMcRosZFa_c3Nvfvjef7swCwehX7KzE2MRnWe02bFVXePkEGQuEeem7RsvoLXPQIMuJfr2soRYl-NikBgrcmhcQd8iD4dCIN0O63fEcvMU6gbyq04zjT-qHY0Pj3RnledThVNl4ygECwihjE5o3Emxf-U2nU_BO3ftMTMc/s1376/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-17%20a%CC%80%2012.41.44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1376" data-original-width="1082" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrSgagaD9bJRsdnJ7mamJiRTMcRosZFa_c3Nvfvjef7swCwehX7KzE2MRnWe02bFVXePkEGQuEeem7RsvoLXPQIMuJfr2soRYl-NikBgrcmhcQd8iD4dCIN0O63fEcvMU6gbyq04zjT-qHY0Pj3RnledThVNl4ygECwihjE5o3Emxf-U2nU_BO3ftMTMc/w504-h640/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-17%20a%CC%80%2012.41.44.png" width="504" /></a></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-65733357988106287182024-02-12T00:00:00.011-05:002024-02-12T00:00:00.257-05:00de Adder Toast at the Post<p>From <a href="https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/07/de-adder-and-wapo-part-ways/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-02-10&utm_campaign=Latest+posts+from+The+Daily+Cartoonist">The Daily Cartoonist</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFjbuS0TdOb_BYWSDURyruVGNNaWPWByMTewSXTBrhZwp_ZvXzBxoPuiuqPrY0eBtSEUeDEjetTH_CNaIEcePZI2HmrgJ2CaO8pMMhU0tAYCPzU2eGQ3fmx9BRJKqF_Pgx0djFvdeQ09laiWPKjxM3yU-nefXMDxgdIyuiUiDcNgeMyoTha-iyfikq_dy/s1200/GD_4WXEWYAAuC0Z.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="962" height="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFjbuS0TdOb_BYWSDURyruVGNNaWPWByMTewSXTBrhZwp_ZvXzBxoPuiuqPrY0eBtSEUeDEjetTH_CNaIEcePZI2HmrgJ2CaO8pMMhU0tAYCPzU2eGQ3fmx9BRJKqF_Pgx0djFvdeQ09laiWPKjxM3yU-nefXMDxgdIyuiUiDcNgeMyoTha-iyfikq_dy/w602-h750/GD_4WXEWYAAuC0Z.jpeg" width="602" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>It has been nearly a month since<b> Michael de Adder</b>‘s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/16/michael-deadder-cartoon-donald-trump-iowa-caucus/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzA1MzgxMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA2NzYzNTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDUzODEyMDAsImp0aSI6ImE3OWEwNjZmLWEyNmMtNDhlYy05ODAwLWExMTIzN2JkOWJmNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzAxLzE2L21pY2hhZWwtZGVhZGRlci1jYXJ0b29uLWRvbmFsZC10cnVtcC1pb3dhLWNhdWN1cy8ifQ.AEXkkY4fs0A9DtY63Q8QzPe72z71gFlME2t07Ynuhdw">last weekly cartoon</a> for <i>The Washington Post</i>. <br /><br />Three years ago Michael, after freelancing for the paper, was signed as a contract cartoonist to <i>The Washington Post</i> and charged with supplying three cartoons a week.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><br />Over the years that was dropped to two cartoons a week. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then last Fall Michael <a href="https://twitter.com/deAdder/status/1722357710149067228">announced</a> he had been reduced to once a week. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MeRczOM673SvO97snV1E4xxt3Qg_ceWXwKQHjXuRbNCw9MExLjCsUtNqljFtt7a4D3mYTafdjZXm1s0DqydMi9-q9oOASumMEGfU0M-b9kX8tk_v8XLQyU_ZTZGelyWaYdwj9uhNbX07zV6vELD6JLGMYMfVVWBuvdb02LxDc_TsmWvrL652MXxlXAZY/s1206/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-10%20a%CC%80%2007.21.54.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="1206" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_MeRczOM673SvO97snV1E4xxt3Qg_ceWXwKQHjXuRbNCw9MExLjCsUtNqljFtt7a4D3mYTafdjZXm1s0DqydMi9-q9oOASumMEGfU0M-b9kX8tk_v8XLQyU_ZTZGelyWaYdwj9uhNbX07zV6vELD6JLGMYMfVVWBuvdb02LxDc_TsmWvrL652MXxlXAZY/w511-h202/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-10%20a%CC%80%2007.21.54.png" width="511" /></a></div><br />That “new management” thing was a regular occurrence with <i>The WaPo</i> during 2023. <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://deadline.com/2023/11/washington-post-publisher-will-lewis-jeff-bezos-1235593401/">From Deadline:</a><br /><br /><blockquote><i>[William] Lewis, who served as the CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of</i> The Wall Street Journal<i> from 2014 to 2020, will start in his role on Jan. 2 [2024]. He will succeed Patty Stonesifer, who has served as interim CEO in June [2023] after Fred Ryan announced his exit.</i></blockquote>Now Mike Rhode at Comics DC<a href="https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/02/michael-de-adder-no-longer-under.html"> has noticed</a> that De Adder has been a no show at <i>The WaPo</i> for three weeks: <br /><br /><blockquote>Michael de Adder appears to no longer be under contract with The Washington Post. He’s not listed as one of their three cartoonists on their Editorial Cartoon page, although Ann Telnaes, Edith Pritchett, and Michael Ramirez are. de Adder’s contributor page now reads “Michael de Adder <b>was</b> a political cartoonist for The Washington Post” and his last cartoon was January 16th.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY25SXdO0TjmoH8Yln4HYpE8wXHgbRigiNH5n5emQT7UDKIYImp6lUDr2uSPMOE76S6NL_vpH-JzeNkTdXN_rryhiEbAwAr8iO6Zog4P0DncSlt46IPEcyCaE0WRSbulpE5HMwscZmydbWvY_3UliEBuPt7nwIgo3kq5oTDfEMNuKcL0YBnEtLKwkJJL2Q/s2702/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-10%20a%CC%80%2007.29.53.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="2702" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY25SXdO0TjmoH8Yln4HYpE8wXHgbRigiNH5n5emQT7UDKIYImp6lUDr2uSPMOE76S6NL_vpH-JzeNkTdXN_rryhiEbAwAr8iO6Zog4P0DncSlt46IPEcyCaE0WRSbulpE5HMwscZmydbWvY_3UliEBuPt7nwIgo3kq5oTDfEMNuKcL0YBnEtLKwkJJL2Q/w640-h238/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-10%20a%CC%80%2007.29.53.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Mike Rhode has reached out to Michael de Adder for more information and will report if any response comes.<br /><br />Michael continues as a freelancer for the <i>Halifax Chronicle Herald</i>, the <i>Toronto Star</i>, and the Ottawa <i>Hill Times</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Michael mentioned his <i>Washington Post</i> situation<a href="https://twitter.com/deAdder/status/1755805540473565422"> on X/Twitter</a> last Friday night.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPVpFQhpWuROWOMhdSy88o5NiuRVikIm0bz7R1G4oBDA8qPKfqdj5ZlV6PZ3ZfF9lvBaUcneizxC938zi9DpQWDZQAtNFDedyWg-KdBMZJ_kJ9SCMPCJGEH5BXnoQrIXOGaLLvMQMQBtbNlBhEYwkfLhC-I2qAK6kP0NejgiD-axC22N0p6S3kqwWThj-d/s1196/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-10%20a%CC%80%2007.37.53.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="1196" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPVpFQhpWuROWOMhdSy88o5NiuRVikIm0bz7R1G4oBDA8qPKfqdj5ZlV6PZ3ZfF9lvBaUcneizxC938zi9DpQWDZQAtNFDedyWg-KdBMZJ_kJ9SCMPCJGEH5BXnoQrIXOGaLLvMQMQBtbNlBhEYwkfLhC-I2qAK6kP0NejgiD-axC22N0p6S3kqwWThj-d/w534-h157/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-10%20a%CC%80%2007.37.53.png" width="534" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-28824698562855866242024-02-07T07:00:00.000-05:002024-02-07T07:00:02.423-05:00Peru: cartoonist Carlín intimidated by police<p>From<a href="https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/soutiens/alerte-perou-carlin/"> Cartooning for Peace</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxcKmLGkKp845Nz5nbPacDYp-99ccqUJhbD_Y_jUOczjDRTV-fHZJrh_KGFNyIMJCU0N4bh-EVvZ8JQfwU-mPGUIaz3NmWKe4sck99FTefYLnUpe8lgNTEisQqv9Gdu7idD7Q-Ope17B7s6bFMMlZplUUhJK5vHjhcyJ9XRRU5HJUTHT7gMP66NobPic/s1520/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-07%20a%CC%80%2006.23.15.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="1520" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxcKmLGkKp845Nz5nbPacDYp-99ccqUJhbD_Y_jUOczjDRTV-fHZJrh_KGFNyIMJCU0N4bh-EVvZ8JQfwU-mPGUIaz3NmWKe4sck99FTefYLnUpe8lgNTEisQqv9Gdu7idD7Q-Ope17B7s6bFMMlZplUUhJK5vHjhcyJ9XRRU5HJUTHT7gMP66NobPic/w640-h406/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-02-07%20a%CC%80%2006.23.15.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div><i>"Learn to tell them apart (Don’t get confused)"</i></div><div>From left to right: <i>"Delinquent in a policeman’s suit", "Delinquent policeman ", </i></div><div><i>"Policeman doing his duty".</i></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>In a statement on January 30, 2024, the Peruvian National Police (PNP) announced that it would be taking legal action against cartoonist<b> Carlín</b> and his newspaper <i>La República </i>over the above cartoon.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div>The cartoon is a critical depiction of the Peruvian National Police. <div><br /></div><div>It was published against a backdrop of media reports implicating members of the police in criminal activities.<br /><br />The police communications department issued a <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliciaPeru/status/1752454204403102072">statement (in Spanish)</a> the same day. </div><div><br /></div><div>Stating that the cartoon “ridicules” the police, it announced its intention to take legal action against the cartoonist and the newspaper La República.<br /><br />Carlín, who stresses that his cartoon depicts an everyday situation in Peru, deplores this attack on his freedom of expression. </div><div><br /></div><div>In 2020, he had already received insults and threats for a cartoon published in the same newspaper, for which he has worked for over twenty years. </div><div><br /></div><div>This time, the attack goes beyond threats.<br /><br />On Friday 2 February, the cartoonist and the newspaper <i>La República</i> were served with a notarised letter from the police, asking them to apologise and rectify their publication within 48 hours or face criminal proceedings for defamation. </div><div><br /></div><div>Under article 132 of the Peruvian Penal Code, this offence carries a penalty of one to three years’ imprisonment, in breach of Inter-American jurisprudence ruling out any prison sentence for press offenses.<br /><br />A number of cartoonists and journalists’ unions, such as the National Association of Journalists (ANP), the Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) and the Peruvian Press Council (CPP), quickly rallied in support of the cartoonist and his newspaper, denouncing an attack on freedom of expression.<br /><br />In its statement, the ANP points out that “humour enjoys special protection as a legitimate expression of freedom of expression” and that “a truly democratic system is based on tolerance of critical artistic expression, a tolerance that is clearly foreign to the person who drew the police statement”. </div><div><br /></div><div>The IPYS’ lawyer, Roberto Peirera, emphasised that “the cartoon contains content that is critical of the police force, which has been severely criticised for objective and verifiable facts”.<br /><br />The Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Colombian lawyer Pedro Vaca Villarreal, reacted on <a href="https://twitter.com/PVacaV/status/1752757515886981393">X -formely Twitter (in Spanish)</a>: </div><div><br /></div><div>“A cartoon does not affect the ‘institutional image’ of an entity. Eroding the space for humour aimed at an authority seriously undermines freedom of expression. </div><div><br /></div><div>When the authorities are concerned by humour, it is because the thought it seeks to provoke is relevant”.<br /><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Support has thus spread far beyond national borders. </span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) <a href="https://wan-ifra.org/2024/02/worlds-press-condemns-threats-and-legal-harassment-of-cartoonist-carlin-and-news-organisation-la-republica-in-peru/">condemns</a> this legal harassment and offers its support, as does the Inter-American Press Association (SIP).<br /><br />The implications of this case on the work of the media, cartoonists and artists are causing growing concern in a country where attacks on press freedom are on the increase. </div><div><br /></div><div>The ANP forecasts 206 attacks on the press in 2021 and 303 attacks in 2022, against a backdrop of marked political crisis. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ranked 77 out of 180 in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index in 2022, Peru dropped to 110 th place in 2023.<br /></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-29432341285330050752024-01-27T07:16:00.001-05:002024-01-29T17:09:16.444-05:00Posy Simmonds wins the Grand Prix in Angouleme<p>From <a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/posy-simmonds-wins-the-grand-prix-at-angouleme/">Heidi MacDonald at Comics Beat</a>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIi3tabQ85hNTs8cNBdZJStz0e0ljdQTCmMzBJimVADddPxRFGPHLDvoUE9k3CAFZrnClzNuqXVxeXTCT50P6ej4cjcb5Ivwn6S0Jc8xswf84V4fxwWFbCUqteXr3UxpEmtNK61pDUnUpOCOb6dIzjt0w_yTUlFp9rfUr7z45C7s14Mxlh0iLS_zCoxlfE/s606/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-18-54-45-Posy-Simmonds-wins-the-Grand-Prix-at-Angouleme.png.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="606" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIi3tabQ85hNTs8cNBdZJStz0e0ljdQTCmMzBJimVADddPxRFGPHLDvoUE9k3CAFZrnClzNuqXVxeXTCT50P6ej4cjcb5Ivwn6S0Jc8xswf84V4fxwWFbCUqteXr3UxpEmtNK61pDUnUpOCOb6dIzjt0w_yTUlFp9rfUr7z45C7s14Mxlh0iLS_zCoxlfE/w640-h354/Screenshot-2024-01-25-at-18-54-45-Posy-Simmonds-wins-the-Grand-Prix-at-Angouleme.png.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br />British cartoonist Posy Simmonds has won Angouleme’s Grand Prix, considered one of the highest honors in comics worldwide. <br /><br />Simmonds won over the other finalists Daniel Clowes and Catherine Meurisse, and the award, presented for a lifetime body of work, is certainly richly deserved. <span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Simmonds, 78, has been a household name in England for decades, with her comics serialized in newspapers such as <i>The Guardian</i>, and turned into feature films. </div><div><br /></div><div>Her work includes such classics as <a href="https://amzn.to/48JZMnH"><i>Gemma Bovary</i></a>, a modern version of Madame Bovary, and <a href="https://amzn.to/42ad2Qa"><i>Tamara Drewe</i>,</a> an updated telling of <i>Far From The Madding Crowd</i>, and most recently, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/22978/9780224089098"><i>Cassandra Drake</i>, </a>a mystery about a middle aged art dealer. </div><div><br /></div><div>Simmonds work is truly worthy of the word graphic novel, with a depth of plot and character and marvelous art. She’s truly someone who lives up the meaning of this award. </div><div><br /></div><div>She’s also quite well known in France, and as a fluent French speaker she’ll be a great Grand Marshall for the 2025 Angoulême festival. <br /><br />Simmonds is the third female identified cartoonist to win in the last decade to win the award, following <b>Rumiko Takahashi</b> and <b>Julie Doucet</b>, after 40 years of one woman winning the main prize and one special prize in the award’s first 30-40 years. <br /><br />Perhaps even more significantly, she is the seventh non-French cartoonist to win in the last 15 years, after almost entirely French cartoonists winning for decades. </div><div><br /></div><div>That led to criticism that the prize was not a worldwide cartooning award; following <a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/french-publishers-announce-boycott-of-angouleme-after-disastrous-2016-festival/">an embarrassingly sexist controversy in 2016 </a>that led to a <a href="https://www.comicsbeat.com/next-years-angoulme-comics-festival-will-not-be-as-awful-as-this-years/">widening of the eligible voters</a> for the award that led to a more globally diverse group, along with freshening and youthification. <br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/24/graphic-novelist-posy-simmonds-wins-prestigious-french-comics-award">More in The Guardian.</a></div></div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-16491106045155025062024-01-22T00:00:00.012-05:002024-01-22T00:00:00.137-05:00"Quentin Blake: Book Covers" Exhibition<p>From the <a href="https://www.ragm.co.uk/quentin-blake">Rugby Art Gallery and Museum</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHVW1jUIfZJQsST0DwIU8W09sJH32e0KdKmXIg1slCm2bWKYrvQ7zS838TP_m7iy56_zWsbHkVwQ_nfMkzrp_nIUh-RIKFGGx8Pll8bD7JU3iCy9BqyROSQannlvg1YgOM_T0uiK5x3LAaX_IqqFeG9C28LJaV9CsNW34q_NUwujOK0oaJ0ErP8csKWPy/s533/unadjustednonraw_thumb_b683.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="341" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhHVW1jUIfZJQsST0DwIU8W09sJH32e0KdKmXIg1slCm2bWKYrvQ7zS838TP_m7iy56_zWsbHkVwQ_nfMkzrp_nIUh-RIKFGGx8Pll8bD7JU3iCy9BqyROSQannlvg1YgOM_T0uiK5x3LAaX_IqqFeG9C28LJaV9CsNW34q_NUwujOK0oaJ0ErP8csKWPy/w410-h640/unadjustednonraw_thumb_b683.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Quentin Blake</b> has been illustrating books for over 50 years. While he is best known for his illustrations for children’s books, his career began with covers for magazines and adult fiction.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br />Thirty two covers from three celebrated publishers are in the show, ranging from some of Quentin's distinctive covers for Penguin paperbacks in the 1960s to his work for premium hardbacks for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheFolioSociety">The Folio Society</a>, and his illustrated covers for children’s books published by Jonathan Cape from the 1970s onwards. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQdGQpPz-68ixBnma1Sxl5HXe_o62q9h1qtp9mjsdc_rQGnfcs4nSMjTL3GkRceqoHfLod8ZHMjlUM5Oqn5T6ZcXzaWdH0wp0Ull2dwVRgSufNTzDGMrMauzPMyY5YFtV4v-Gza3PO3097ZfASa3c3WQDt-mL89QC-pUfxSyx80HaAhfWgwP047rcxRU5/s840/534x840.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="534" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQdGQpPz-68ixBnma1Sxl5HXe_o62q9h1qtp9mjsdc_rQGnfcs4nSMjTL3GkRceqoHfLod8ZHMjlUM5Oqn5T6ZcXzaWdH0wp0Ull2dwVRgSufNTzDGMrMauzPMyY5YFtV4v-Gza3PO3097ZfASa3c3WQDt-mL89QC-pUfxSyx80HaAhfWgwP047rcxRU5/w406-h640/534x840.jpg" width="406" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Through these eclectic and punchy designs Quentin demonstrates how his inimitable style always comes through, even when adapting to different subject matter and audiences. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-rHEP1lQ-MmTitU3Ag_rC2cO7HU5qm8Lk2JFZmQHHdXxcff_HQOa2UEy0kN-507nE-ePn-LQBDqO14EDO9JRXcAs-RSXzaSHZOp5V4TByEUxLqts7llFy_W_LBvueLCTOEQ5oIeEeH4rY9z2hcBt5DuhrUAEmpPGX7Ct_1WIebIC92ob8PdFEOYv4Muk/s1000/media-libraryApj4N0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="701" height="764" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg-rHEP1lQ-MmTitU3Ag_rC2cO7HU5qm8Lk2JFZmQHHdXxcff_HQOa2UEy0kN-507nE-ePn-LQBDqO14EDO9JRXcAs-RSXzaSHZOp5V4TByEUxLqts7llFy_W_LBvueLCTOEQ5oIeEeH4rY9z2hcBt5DuhrUAEmpPGX7Ct_1WIebIC92ob8PdFEOYv4Muk/w535-h764/media-libraryApj4N0.jpeg" width="535" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitSx5ZgLxOS4w5Df83XP0y8sJMS-E9VFpm6LWxDivcfzoTIompQDU-562ToFZ0GJXGGv5x_keHgzAthSvWXz7DSBpybiI3rAQvhQWsMew_OlvPJOd4_haKBARMIcBaetVZQyDwh3S8X_ks-pNyvuH-ZD_bIQTw1gNQIytVo3G73jB5Iv7uUGMSkC683Nx/s1000/media-libraryoSQ39B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="707" height="757" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiitSx5ZgLxOS4w5Df83XP0y8sJMS-E9VFpm6LWxDivcfzoTIompQDU-562ToFZ0GJXGGv5x_keHgzAthSvWXz7DSBpybiI3rAQvhQWsMew_OlvPJOd4_haKBARMIcBaetVZQyDwh3S8X_ks-pNyvuH-ZD_bIQTw1gNQIytVo3G73jB5Iv7uUGMSkC683Nx/w535-h757/media-libraryoSQ39B.jpeg" width="535" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Cover illustration for <i>Riddley Walker </i>by Russell Hoban</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>First editions are shown alongside reproductions of original artwork from Quentin's archive that show how he combines typography, dynamic layouts and his unique way of drawing to create playful designs.<br />illustration workshops.<br /><br /><i>Quentin Blake: Book Covers</i></div><div>10 February to 11 May 2024</div><div>The Rugby Art Gallery and Museum</div>Little Elborow Street,<br />Rugby,<br />CV21 3BZ<div><br /></div><div><i>'Quentin Blake: Book Covers'</i> is a touring exhibition from the <a href=" https://www.qbcentre.org.uk/">Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration</a>. </div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-36637950880216133782024-01-17T06:07:00.001-05:002024-02-11T12:23:24.653-05:00Drawn & Quarterly in Angoulême <p>Fom <a href="https://drawnandquarterly.com/event/dq-attends-angouleme-international-comics-festival-2024/?mc_cid=72968217ec&mc_eid=e5ec037df5">Drawn & Quarterly</a>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfjsnI9NRe1949Ad5wExJ11H_Rlux7KcAg4BClJ-BAJxliBDWBDrzt6ndRdPAT_8RIYQQQSZ2y_vP6VM0GixrVraS56dh3i6LiMjkxgUrGghJPi7I9v6PJW2n_hvP9-hUG8fh4swJ9Z4hg51Vzmj_a3Ki3lJ8XPJJhFNrnJ6SpvsS0kMdRcjtOjPhFfqm/s1645/image001-e1705343128430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1645" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfjsnI9NRe1949Ad5wExJ11H_Rlux7KcAg4BClJ-BAJxliBDWBDrzt6ndRdPAT_8RIYQQQSZ2y_vP6VM0GixrVraS56dh3i6LiMjkxgUrGghJPi7I9v6PJW2n_hvP9-hUG8fh4swJ9Z4hg51Vzmj_a3Ki3lJ8XPJJhFNrnJ6SpvsS0kMdRcjtOjPhFfqm/w640-h392/image001-e1705343128430.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Drawn & Quarterly attends the <a href="https://www.bdangouleme.com/focus-sur-le-9e-art-canadien-grand-public">51st annual Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême</a> as part of a special focus on Canadian comics.<br /><br />Attending will be Executive Editor Tom Devlin and Editorial Assistant Francine Yulo. <div><br /></div><div>Drop by the D+Q booth at the Canada Pavilion to browse our books and sneak a peek at our foreign rights front list. </div><div><br /></div><div>An exhibit of Canadian comics entitled<i> “D’un océan à l’autre, cap sur la bande dessinée canadienne”</i> will also be on view at the Parvis de l’Hotel de Ville.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><br />The festival runs January 25 to 28, 2024. <div>Check out the following events to catch attending D+Q authors and more!<div><br /><div><b>Discover Drawn & Quarterly</b><br />January 25, 10:30 am to 11:30 am<br />Canada Pavilion<br /><br /><b>Focus Canada: Snapshots of Contemporary America </b></div><div>With Jillian Tamaki Walter Scott, and Kristen Radtke<br />January 26, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm<br />Salle Méliès, l’Espace Franquin<br /><br /><b>Focus Canada: Resist! </b></div><div>With Chris Oliveros and Baru <br />January 26, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm<br />Auditorium, Conservatoire<br /><br /><b>Create Your Own Character </b></div><div>With Philippe Girard<br />January 27, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm<br />UNESCO Pavilion<br /><br /><b>Regard sur la bande dessinée autochtone</b></div><div>Walter Scott in Conversation with Katherena Vermette and Chris Twin<br />January 27, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm<br />Canada Pavilion<br /><br /><b>Regard sur la bande dessinée de l’Ontario</b></div><div>Jillian Tamaki in conversation with Sid Sharp and Chris Sanagan<br />January 27, 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm<br />Canada Pavilion<br /><br /><b>Mourir pour la cause </b></div><div>With Chris Oliveros<br />January 28, 12:45 pm to 1:30 pm<br />Canada Pavilion<br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-48974985526982594132024-01-15T00:00:00.003-05:002024-01-15T00:00:00.166-05:00"Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde" Exhibition<p>From <a href="https://www.posterhouse.org/?fbclid=IwAR2Rmr8dp26YOV_dc1s8RWpP_VOFh282tMsx2UeoszgtYhH5cyldHLorylI">The Poster House</a>. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLzcGMyfcQYCQ-j5KXhT_yOf_tvj_e_q7qZalbqAgWPHwl7IovKrQiA-2NHLJWrqkGzGWpz-4jYXSO1ctLo19lzTmayIWIGxQ_MtAHpeutcO2fh-CjFOO3BG0HNn8HKxS0_EFoVJ_DENFFdgpDkPWsfn5_Fu1_8U8iSGimYIgKrajXuaNPzSnBNExd7gVK/s1646/AD031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1646" data-original-width="1200" height="844" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLzcGMyfcQYCQ-j5KXhT_yOf_tvj_e_q7qZalbqAgWPHwl7IovKrQiA-2NHLJWrqkGzGWpz-4jYXSO1ctLo19lzTmayIWIGxQ_MtAHpeutcO2fh-CjFOO3BG0HNn8HKxS0_EFoVJ_DENFFdgpDkPWsfn5_Fu1_8U8iSGimYIgKrajXuaNPzSnBNExd7gVK/w613-h844/AD031.jpg" width="613" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="text-align: start;">Paul Colin (1892-1985), </span><span style="text-align: start;">Collection of William W. Crouse</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde</i><div>Sep 28, 2023–Feb 25, 2024</div><div>Poster House</div>119 W. 23rd Street<br />New York, NY 10011<span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><br />As Paul Colin was best known for his theater and cabaret posters, this design for a Parisian optician is unusual.<div><br />Some sources claim that he was friends with the owner of the business, thus explaining this exception to his typical subject matter.</div><div><br />Graphically, this composition represents a natural progression from the sketchy, ebullient geometries of his 1920s work to the more refined, three-dimensional Modernism, complete with airbrushing, associated with the 1930s.</div><div><br />In a humorous twist, Colin has made the lettering appear blurry so that passersby are forced into a second glance to confirm that their vision is not, in fact, failing —the perfect advertisement for glasses.</div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-7382485962114420812024-01-13T00:00:00.018-05:002024-01-13T00:00:00.141-05:00Meurisse, Simmonds & Clowes shortlisted for Angoulême Grand PrixFrom <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paulgravett">Paul Gravett's Facebook page</a>.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEseEZ9X5o7pOu7C1AdaFet8Fw6FPFBhGUnCbTspgDw7kDvp7kjY04Nv0Pw0bUqjqHyzfVHoQVF6gL8-f_VKkHnNOkYNUvLcNQmZ12U7LJY8udmRTF8cbvocKUyeCTJUWfR9XPUJt_tmCfvjsrISsg07_J3GIHTVL1oE1hq28dJnB2_nh6OUuI2_-3kZQN/s2134/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-01-11%20a%CC%80%2023.00.32.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="2134" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEseEZ9X5o7pOu7C1AdaFet8Fw6FPFBhGUnCbTspgDw7kDvp7kjY04Nv0Pw0bUqjqHyzfVHoQVF6gL8-f_VKkHnNOkYNUvLcNQmZ12U7LJY8udmRTF8cbvocKUyeCTJUWfR9XPUJt_tmCfvjsrISsg07_J3GIHTVL1oE1hq28dJnB2_nh6OUuI2_-3kZQN/w640-h342/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-01-11%20a%CC%80%2023.00.32.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063478609700&__cft__[0]=AZXOeK3X6WwxwLrRdVE1dzu2ZtrzWY1enxCtBp1wKE-851t8Si-zoW9nHxgUI7EevlB-Vm4p8D2u56lbavQcPygb18bWkT3wJ5BRFocWfHFdexpSZmojvL4ZwpkwmBFy7mKL5wvV80Bcqw_qKkLm4G13ZMuUjcz_EMW_Au8E0F81CzhYm7q-KYC7kM7zqeLxxOE&__tn__=-]K-R"><b>Catherine Meurisse</b></a>, <b>Posy Simmonds</b> and <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/danielclowescomics?__cft__[0]=AZXOeK3X6WwxwLrRdVE1dzu2ZtrzWY1enxCtBp1wKE-851t8Si-zoW9nHxgUI7EevlB-Vm4p8D2u56lbavQcPygb18bWkT3wJ5BRFocWfHFdexpSZmojvL4ZwpkwmBFy7mKL5wvV80Bcqw_qKkLm4G13ZMuUjcz_EMW_Au8E0F81CzhYm7q-KYC7kM7zqeLxxOE&__tn__=-]K-R">Daniel Clowes</a> </b>are the three nominees, voted for by the profession, for the prestigious Grand Prix of the 51st <a href="https://www.facebook.com/festivalBDangouleme?__cft__[0]=AZXOeK3X6WwxwLrRdVE1dzu2ZtrzWY1enxCtBp1wKE-851t8Si-zoW9nHxgUI7EevlB-Vm4p8D2u56lbavQcPygb18bWkT3wJ5BRFocWfHFdexpSZmojvL4ZwpkwmBFy7mKL5wvV80Bcqw_qKkLm4G13ZMuUjcz_EMW_Au8E0F81CzhYm7q-KYC7kM7zqeLxxOE&__tn__=-]K-R">Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>The second round (from Friday January 12 to Wednesday January 17), will now invite the same college of authors to elect the winner from among these three nominees. </div><div><br /></div><div>At the end of this entire electoral process - carried out entirely under the supervision of a bailiff - the name of the 2024 Grand Prix will be announced on Wednesday January 24, during the Official Opening of the Festival.</div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-47905031774163862652024-01-12T00:00:00.001-05:002024-01-12T00:00:00.143-05:00Arizona Editorial Cartoonist Steve Benson Retires<p>From <a href="https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/01/10/arizona-editoonist-steve-benson-retires/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-01-11&utm_campaign=Latest+posts+from+The+Daily+Cartoonist">The Daily Cartoonist</a>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cdhBCsO1-5CJnIahjyFjvdTOrqs9EAUlt__heugt7bULiGcNWyOLePcwj2zYd6P0OTt1wqO0UctTqNNN0WfGCAlATiiNDnG6lGZm3wh3GfP8UMZobQKJnACZHpfcRbiVcBKxiJFoDERBHWBqKrWsuVt6w6Pc1vhpNk2FLsc0FL1sPY8ukctYnGbWfiYu/s1320/303e47d6-191a-49e9-8856-20a11e44b125-benson.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1320" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2cdhBCsO1-5CJnIahjyFjvdTOrqs9EAUlt__heugt7bULiGcNWyOLePcwj2zYd6P0OTt1wqO0UctTqNNN0WfGCAlATiiNDnG6lGZm3wh3GfP8UMZobQKJnACZHpfcRbiVcBKxiJFoDERBHWBqKrWsuVt6w6Pc1vhpNk2FLsc0FL1sPY8ukctYnGbWfiYu/w640-h426/303e47d6-191a-49e9-8856-20a11e44b125-benson.jpg.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>After almost 45 year years of editorial cartooning <b><a href="https://www.azmirror.com/cartoons/">Steve Benson</a></b> is retiring.<span><a name='more'></a></span><br />Jim Small, Editor In Chief of <i>The Arizona Mirror</i>, <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2024/01/10/after-more-than-40-years-we-say-a-loving-goodbye-to-steve-benson/">announced</a> Steve’s decision today:<br /><blockquote><i>Since the 1980s, he’s been skewering Arizona leaders and politicos on a regular basis, in between reminding us exactly how amazing our state is and how we need to protect both its natural and human resources from the ever encroaching machines of development and misguided (or worse) laws.</i><br /><br /><i>Over the past nearly five years, I haven’t had to search far, as Benson has been publishing his work in the </i>Arizona Mirror<i> and I’ve had the joy of editing it and, on occasion, collaborating on his ideas — something that the childhood me marveling at his drawings in T</i>he Arizona Republic <i>in the early 1990s couldn’t have fathomed.</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and it pains me to say that Benson is stepping out of the workaday world and into retirement. </i><br /><br /><i>It won’t be “goodbye forever,” and I certainly hope that we’ll see the occasional Benson cartoon land in the </i>Arizona Mirror<i> in the weeks, months and years to come. But the t<a href="https://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/steve-benson-finds-new-home-at-arizona.html">wo-cartoon-a-week schedule</a> that he’s kept up with us for almost five years has come to a close.</i> </blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsoXKEoAySqMSo5vPtCLTboKsOaaK_vdhpR8JchlRSP6YmR7hWgyh0tmTS5gXGcAKc-U4VoXu5k-KGU2Ks0xMFIzy1Sv_lzjQ47ousUi9FcgpPr9bwKC0EusK8k6p7rqYsvvEwAIFrvT-I9K09fJw1TjJgWDh8xCOoVCd69I3s52veWv3VH2ZnoZ2oimvw/s785/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-11-23-05-Benson-reitrement-cartoon-16x9-1-1024x576.jpg-JPEG-Image-1024-%C3%97-576-pixels.png.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="785" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsoXKEoAySqMSo5vPtCLTboKsOaaK_vdhpR8JchlRSP6YmR7hWgyh0tmTS5gXGcAKc-U4VoXu5k-KGU2Ks0xMFIzy1Sv_lzjQ47ousUi9FcgpPr9bwKC0EusK8k6p7rqYsvvEwAIFrvT-I9K09fJw1TjJgWDh8xCOoVCd69I3s52veWv3VH2ZnoZ2oimvw/w640-h470/Screenshot-2024-01-10-at-11-23-05-Benson-reitrement-cartoon-16x9-1-1024x576.jpg-JPEG-Image-1024-%C3%97-576-pixels.png.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Except for a brief 1990-1991 sojourn to<i> The Tacoma Morning News Tribune</i>, Steve Benson spent almost 40 years at<i> The Arizona Republic</i>, from 1980 to 2019 when the Gannett Co., Inc.<a href="https://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/pulitzer-winning-cartoonist-among-laid.html"> laid him off</a>.<br /><br />In their <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/01/24/steve-bensons-cartoons-arizona-republic-layoff/2662766002/">January 2019 farewell</a> to Steve <i>The Republic</i> mentioned that:<br /><i><blockquote>He had his moments. And his controversies. He probably generated more letters to the editor during his tenure than the rest of the staff combined.</blockquote></i>For example…<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDI141gDxPQSL-GwiNhiNklhSgbVJmoh2O5xbUEi7tSeWEHF91_6ECJL-KZECT3PGL8l8IPUuSv18ipFMtn4NzUJunP00oDD6kTV-HBhrtfHFcd_0R8WP8xhR0aiIidp9IiJnEa6Fii8gP6lvDD2_Cw4714nQIceUmED4X3mGM2TS1BWlVhtugKS5cAQIH/s1518/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-01-11%20a%CC%80%2011.49.49.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="1518" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDI141gDxPQSL-GwiNhiNklhSgbVJmoh2O5xbUEi7tSeWEHF91_6ECJL-KZECT3PGL8l8IPUuSv18ipFMtn4NzUJunP00oDD6kTV-HBhrtfHFcd_0R8WP8xhR0aiIidp9IiJnEa6Fii8gP6lvDD2_Cw4714nQIceUmED4X3mGM2TS1BWlVhtugKS5cAQIH/w640-h266/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-01-11%20a%CC%80%2011.49.49.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jqdTc0erC5yomXZxGDTxSMQb9E9OeJX-t2F3ZR3c9_nJKVF0syT94fBmKX8x70FTfjW98xbuoQBdp5JB6WaTk4AgEZx8D5fuIpTsMtlP-U0zK-aoa0FcMWTBo08srNB8FHjKINAlcIc3BQ8_7P3_vZEaYnkfE_O9WDdVXlvqr49NUc9xVVwtI43yqT1u/s880/90.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="880" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4jqdTc0erC5yomXZxGDTxSMQb9E9OeJX-t2F3ZR3c9_nJKVF0syT94fBmKX8x70FTfjW98xbuoQBdp5JB6WaTk4AgEZx8D5fuIpTsMtlP-U0zK-aoa0FcMWTBo08srNB8FHjKINAlcIc3BQ8_7P3_vZEaYnkfE_O9WDdVXlvqr49NUc9xVVwtI43yqT1u/w640-h448/90.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br />David Fitzsimmons, editorial cartoonist of <i>The Arizona Daily Star</i>, <a href="https://tucson.com/opinion/local/fitz-arizonas-finest-cartoonist-steve-benson-bites-the-dust/article_8c4bd495-cdd3-5adf-b18c-0089450e6065.html">called Steve</a> “Arizona’s finest cartoonist:”<br /><i><blockquote>When I started in ’86, Benson enjoyed well-deserved national acclaim. As the years have passed my respect and admiration for Steve has only grown…<br /><br />A fearless evangelist for democracy, and for social and economic justice, Steve Benson’s peerless line work was confident, his renderings beautiful, his color lush, and his compositions striking. </blockquote><blockquote>A joy for this cartoonist to behold. Steve’s concepts were consistently powerful, provocative and memorable.</blockquote></i>Two months after being let go by <i>The Republic</i> <i><a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2019/04/02/steve-benson-cartoons-arizona-mirror/">The Arizona Mirror</a></i> signed the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist:<br /><blockquote><i>Did you see Steve Benson’s cartoon today?</i><br /><br /><i>Since late January, the answer to that question for Arizonans like myself who grew up with his daily skewering of the powerful on the editorial pages of </i>The Arizona Republic<i> was, sadly, “No,” because Benson was laid off by Gannett, the Republic’s parent company.</i><br /><br /><i>But that changes today, as the </i>Arizona Mirror <i>becomes the new home for Benson and his artistic wit and commentary on the state of affairs in Arizona…</i><br /><br /><i>We’ll have new Benson cartoons every Tuesday and Friday morning. And the next time someone asks if you saw his latest critique of our leaders, you’ll be able to answer with a resounding, “Yes!”</i></blockquote><br />Now five years later <i>“Arizona’s finest cartoonist”</i> is retiring. <br /><br />Further reading: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.azmirror.com/cartoons/">Steve Benson’s Arizona Mirror cartoon archive</a>. </div><div><a href="https://www.creators.com/features/steve-benson">The Creators Syndicate archive</a>. <br /></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-8229535948466097962024-01-11T00:00:00.003-05:002024-01-11T11:15:02.274-05:00I wish I'd drawn... (70)<p>... this cartoon by Jack Ohman.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uFl7xS8C903JLrC0C3HogmieYp57lqgn4MrIocnZuv0NlDNF-p0eKu-vapxMzpljpm2-cCRYBEbOcWLCvijaFihMwxaya-Nnwi_zvPhfx3_nCzK_JAwmbTQApw3_Ml51TKP48kObcaNTOlc90-ERYtJyZjPA7alDakLCa2JVaSObC1fIIcaLXe0G2At0/s1284/418579248_17910250367884603_3399079151691928337_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="1284" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1uFl7xS8C903JLrC0C3HogmieYp57lqgn4MrIocnZuv0NlDNF-p0eKu-vapxMzpljpm2-cCRYBEbOcWLCvijaFihMwxaya-Nnwi_zvPhfx3_nCzK_JAwmbTQApw3_Ml51TKP48kObcaNTOlc90-ERYtJyZjPA7alDakLCa2JVaSObC1fIIcaLXe0G2At0/w640-h446/418579248_17910250367884603_3399079151691928337_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><b>UPDATE</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMhTY7dfsIA_5YF2X7c5QproHLcK2dcOwK7i5iIPM_2MN5Ui2qjoawkKrwglFKRGObFbGt3lSgRLmzU_AJTc6uuswukVv9_1Dx-p_-mftatIDf7KhfM1ENvlN09MRSSHePjAXZiF5wGLPGAs9WrIMTwTDA9uVYrhU9wHYs-XRsmu9e9O_8yT0tGt_hEtj3/s640/GDavbd3XwAAJNHV.png.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMhTY7dfsIA_5YF2X7c5QproHLcK2dcOwK7i5iIPM_2MN5Ui2qjoawkKrwglFKRGObFbGt3lSgRLmzU_AJTc6uuswukVv9_1Dx-p_-mftatIDf7KhfM1ENvlN09MRSSHePjAXZiF5wGLPGAs9WrIMTwTDA9uVYrhU9wHYs-XRsmu9e9O_8yT0tGt_hEtj3/w400-h400/GDavbd3XwAAJNHV.png.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Cartoon by Matt Pritchett</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></p>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-91753645477296160552024-01-09T14:39:00.001-05:002024-01-09T14:39:21.569-05:00Buffalo News Apologizes for Zyglis CartoonFrom <a href="https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/01/08/buffalo-news-apologizes-for-zyglis-cartoon/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-01-09&utm_campaign=Latest+posts+from+The+Daily+Cartoonist">The Daily Cartoonist</a>. <br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Mgw6CRTKjtknlfkJC2AAwSDhWHlx5L9Y-dn_yooVzlh2l5wlqVEKUWwlL8cqUJ8q-wbAPVvgU7r8dcbfAyDPHmm5FUkvESElHjXmFnpeJ-kivOd7fNf6iEE-lIijSm7QVcZmOW46i_AKno2BR8oe-pJES_77xa1bLEYNqVA9S6ERt7PIHORgquFUeE1i/s1580/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-01-09%20a%CC%80%2014.23.38.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="1580" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Mgw6CRTKjtknlfkJC2AAwSDhWHlx5L9Y-dn_yooVzlh2l5wlqVEKUWwlL8cqUJ8q-wbAPVvgU7r8dcbfAyDPHmm5FUkvESElHjXmFnpeJ-kivOd7fNf6iEE-lIijSm7QVcZmOW46i_AKno2BR8oe-pJES_77xa1bLEYNqVA9S6ERt7PIHORgquFUeE1i/w640-h524/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202024-01-09%20a%CC%80%2014.23.38.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>After catching some grief over this Adam Zyglis cartoon two week’s ago and calling for letters of comment that were published in the Sunday December 31, 2023 edition, today The Buffalo News apologized for running the cartoon.<div><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; min-height: 1px;"><a href="https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/after-publishing-a-controversial-cartoon-the-buffalo-news-offers-an-apology/71-887e3390-109e-411d-8e68-84b0e37494a5" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: royalblue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="From Buffalo's WGRZ-TV: ">From Buffalo’s WGRZ-TV: </a></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="border-left: 5px solid var(--border-bottom-color); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-left: 15px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; min-height: 1px;">The Buffalo News apologized to the Chabad Center for Jewish Life and other members of the Jewish community after publishing a political cartoon that several people called antisemitic.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; min-height: 1px;">The Buffalo News published the official apology on Monday, January 8, saying, “We understand better today why that pain exists, and to those we injured, we apologize.”</p></blockquote><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;">You can read the full apology published by the</span><i style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> Buffalo News</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> linked</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://buffalonews.com/opinion/editorial/the-editorial-board-an-apology/article_2c583b56-abee-11ee-8c2b-d76e5335eec4.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: royalblue; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;">.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; min-height: 1px;">For those not getting past The News’ paywall the Buffalo Jewish Federation <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BuffaloJewish/posts/pfbid023GzWQ8LZRTWZkAVzEENnxCc8cQXPKFpmCMhzU541URv2VtLeA7HgpQLKYZfAHv1tl">posted the apology</a> in full on their Facebook page: </p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="border-left: 5px solid var(--border-bottom-color); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 1.5em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-left: 15px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; min-height: 1px;">The Editorial Board: An apology</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; min-height: 1px;">A political cartoon we ran on Dec. 26 has caused deep pain to many Jews in our region and beyond. We understand better today why that pain exists and to those we injured, we apologize.</p></blockquote><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;">Our failure grew from a deficient attention to history and nuance, not hostility…</span> </blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote> <span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;">We are sorry to have caused so much pain.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: "Public Sans"; font-size: 16px;"></span><p></p></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-1208355986627932342024-01-08T18:32:00.005-05:002024-01-11T17:41:56.940-05:00Brian McConnachie 1942-2024From <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/brian-1942-2024-96128210?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link">Patreon</a>.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrqLOZfD7EWvw_QroLlXH-MLbs1CL27b6gubSuM7CzGWBIalsgXkIE-nweGQ_S5Tufius9yYZtTMNoF4-ZRDBF20WoBe3m29RlQVtH_CIBgp_OUmyfXC0hVmBX-rZr2b2gZv6-f7d0YZ7cW_i-JMHADhE1ea3Wt-H_NuMNKHTARFM7tuKSf2H3io-WO8H/s620/Brian%201974.png.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="620" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggrqLOZfD7EWvw_QroLlXH-MLbs1CL27b6gubSuM7CzGWBIalsgXkIE-nweGQ_S5Tufius9yYZtTMNoF4-ZRDBF20WoBe3m29RlQVtH_CIBgp_OUmyfXC0hVmBX-rZr2b2gZv6-f7d0YZ7cW_i-JMHADhE1ea3Wt-H_NuMNKHTARFM7tuKSf2H3io-WO8H/w640-h454/Brian%201974.png.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>It's with great sadness that I must announce the death of friend and colleague Brian McConnachie last Friday morning. <div><br /></div><div>In addition to being the Founder of <i>The Bystander</i> back in 1981, Brian was essential in its relaunch in 2015. </div><div><br /></div><div>Every day, on every page, he has been our North Star.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br />From his days at <i>The National Lampoon</i>, Brian was "every comedy writer's favorite comedy writer," crafting an unmistakable one-of-a-kind laid-back eccentricity that inspired generations. </div><div><br /></div><div>He is the only person I know who wrote for the Holy Trinity of Seventies Comedy—<i>National Lampoon</i>, SNL, and SCTV. </div><div><br /></div><div>This speaks to not only his writing talent, but his bonhomie and ability to be a good friend. </div><div><br /></div><div>Brian was never one to toot his own horn—and sometimes would avoid doing so, to a maddening degree—but since he's not here, we should all toot it loudly.<br /><br />Brian McConnachie was loved by so many, and admired by so many more. </div><div><br /></div><div>Alan Goldberg and I were deeply grateful to have him as a friend and partner. </div><div><br /></div><div>Brian McConnachie will be missed; there will not be another.<br /><br />A memorial in NYC is planned for the Spring. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Michael Gerber</div><div><br />PS—I am putting together a book of Brian's work, his last request to me, and you all should receive that next month. Things are a little crazy here right now, but work is being done as best as we are able.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">UPDATE</span></b></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/brian-mcconnachie-dead-sctv-saturday-night-live-1235783464/">Brian McConnachie, Writer for ‘National Lampoon,’ ‘SCTV’ and ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Dies at 81</a></i></li><li><i><a href="https://www.marksverylarge.com/2024/01/09/brian-mcconnachie-r-i-p/">Brian McConnachie, R.I.P.</a></i></li></ul></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-36502710963170053252024-01-04T00:00:00.001-05:002024-01-04T00:00:00.139-05:00Mickey Mouse and the Public Domain<p>From <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DaveAlvarezStudio">Dave Alvarez Studios</a>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMivtVR6pM6UzgnLYuI55iWMYq-Z8hZFNGrTbR7ewcXKoyb4OBvn-91yKcKO-drlScsy_3n75TA0SwP7y-DxD_9_rfGXKgDpCAOYSzEdPzjLQ97_XjZt6_CaAE1SIcvCisOWNgmRk82VaKSQ-BaanaNy27dSyGGF2yLCVoAINv_JvZM9EM6mJ9x_iRg4qn/s1080/416571698_770040401828638_9195019336793095612_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMivtVR6pM6UzgnLYuI55iWMYq-Z8hZFNGrTbR7ewcXKoyb4OBvn-91yKcKO-drlScsy_3n75TA0SwP7y-DxD_9_rfGXKgDpCAOYSzEdPzjLQ97_XjZt6_CaAE1SIcvCisOWNgmRk82VaKSQ-BaanaNy27dSyGGF2yLCVoAINv_JvZM9EM6mJ9x_iRg4qn/w640-h640/416571698_770040401828638_9195019336793095612_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>First of all, let me assure you that Disney has the Mouse very well protected and that their lawyers are sitting there, quietly waiting for someone to get out of line.<div><br />A gray line situation perhaps.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br />The media has gone crazy proclaiming that Mickey Mouse is in the public domain. </div><div><br /> Well that's true and it's NOT true at the same time.</div><div><br /><b> What's in the public domain?</b><br />-The 1928 Steamboat Willie version is. (The 'Plane Crazy' version as well.)<br />In short, Mickey in black and white with no gloves.</div><div><br /><b>Oh! So that means that we all own Mickey Mouse now?</b><br />-No. Mickey Mouse as a character, is still protected by the Copyright laws and Trademark.</div><div><br /><b>What's the difference between Copyright and Trademark?</b><br />-Copyrights primarily protect the rights of people who create literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other original works (like history tests, and software code). </div><div>Trademarks can protect the use of a company's name and its product names, brand identity (like logos), and slogans.</div><div><br /><b>What can't I do?</b><br />-You CAN'T create another black and white mouse and call it Mickey Mouse.<br />-You CAN'T market or sell the image of Mickey Mouse. So you better shelf those bed sheet and blankets ideas.<br />-The Copyright law didn't give you a New Year's gift. You DON'T own Mickey Mouse. <br />-You CAN'T use the name "Mickey Mouse".</div><div><br /><b>What can I do?</b><br />- The public has gained the right to creatively use the first black-and-white Disney characters strictly as they appear in the 1928 animated short film<i> “Steamboat Willie,”</i> as well as that year’s silent version of the short film <i>“Plane Crazy.”</i><br />-You CAN use Mickey and Minnie from <i>‘Steamboat Willie’</i> and <i>‘Plane Crazy,’</i> but you cannot use the aggregated later Mickey that, for example, appears in<i> 'Fantasia.’ </i></div><div><br /> 2024 looks like a busy year for Disney lawyers. </div><div><br /></div><div>Many don't get this and I blame the media for half-informing people.</div><div><br />The more modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the<i> ‘Steamboat Willie’ </i>copyright, and Mickey will continue to be the Disney symbol as we all know.<p style="text-align: center;"><br /> </p></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-50385562047224962882024-01-01T00:00:00.001-05:002024-01-01T00:00:00.138-05:00Clay Bennett: 2023 in Cartoons<p>From the <a href="https://www.timesfreepress.com/photos/galleries/2023/dec/28/top-clay-bennett-cartoons-2023/#gallery-1">Times Free Press</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-28716483172361748362023-12-31T11:38:00.003-05:002023-12-31T11:38:44.731-05:002023 Canadian Editorial Cartoons Roundup<p>From <a href="https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/30/editorial-cartoons-of-2023-roundup-from-canada-eh/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-12-31&utm_campaign=Latest+posts+from+The+Daily+Cartoonist">The Daily Cartoonist.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3-MwuXDCY8b4ibJzCMN74LowHzl8YgauMNhdw2YJKcEG8Fs6nGWzpvu5FL-6yBMjwdrLh45sJpVr9fNNazk8LZI9ENJwY-1adTwBf-EyMf6xw24EJmeeqRpKNiwrTQk19JyupatGY-i0xqGz0Zjp7xMJ4rGkl51RZIzTU6ur2xEIRti7vv90P5Ri6oUd1/s502/Screenshot-2023-12-30-at-15-59-25-The-Year-in-Cartoons-2023-The-best-of-Patrick-Corrigan.png.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="502" height="616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3-MwuXDCY8b4ibJzCMN74LowHzl8YgauMNhdw2YJKcEG8Fs6nGWzpvu5FL-6yBMjwdrLh45sJpVr9fNNazk8LZI9ENJwY-1adTwBf-EyMf6xw24EJmeeqRpKNiwrTQk19JyupatGY-i0xqGz0Zjp7xMJ4rGkl51RZIzTU6ur2xEIRti7vv90P5Ri6oUd1/w640-h616/Screenshot-2023-12-30-at-15-59-25-The-Year-in-Cartoons-2023-The-best-of-Patrick-Corrigan.png.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br />From <i>The Toronto Star</i> comes :<div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/the-year-in-cartoons-2023-the-best-of-patrick-corrigan/article_281b3d8c-9ea0-11ee-ae10-d3ff7c102f6e.html">“The Best of Patrick Corrigan.”</a></li><li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/the-year-in-cartoons-2023-the-best-of-theo-moudakis/article_b62f5ab8-9e9b-11ee-bec9-67bf74fa5fbc.html">“The Best of Theo Moudakis.”</a></li><li><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/the-year-in-cartoons-2023-the-best-of-michael-de-adder/article_3b183ac8-9ea7-11ee-8bf1-570ffef3bd1c.html">“The Best of Michael De Adder.”</a></li></ul><i>The Saskatoon Star Phoenix</i> features a few cartoonists but mostly regular contributor <b>Greg Perry</b> in a gallery of <a href="https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/editorials/year-in-review-editorial-cartoons-2">“2023’s top stories through our cartoon commentary.”</a></div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2935781413882655390.post-74172988385587147902023-12-28T09:43:00.001-05:002023-12-28T09:43:58.589-05:00Michael deAdder Named to the Order of Canada<p>From <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/order-of-canada-dec-2023-1.7065562?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar">CBC News</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Jb9d4RILZRdnPcJ82WJ2EtMekDGJviCnhxlmJSg1LNxjkhtZU1yw30bvynm7n7qR8M1DODjYzJMPHVeb3vzg-cJlbb1_ZA3Zhuds9J1BoLYaOpd0OlJZlkALcTC-Rmfav5Wvz-uNIlhvy19uecuDdZKWzKE66o4gEMlxNvufNNAxUV2sLcrvroTaTIvr/s1838/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202023-12-28%20a%CC%80%2009.28.51.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1362" data-original-width="1838" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Jb9d4RILZRdnPcJ82WJ2EtMekDGJviCnhxlmJSg1LNxjkhtZU1yw30bvynm7n7qR8M1DODjYzJMPHVeb3vzg-cJlbb1_ZA3Zhuds9J1BoLYaOpd0OlJZlkALcTC-Rmfav5Wvz-uNIlhvy19uecuDdZKWzKE66o4gEMlxNvufNNAxUV2sLcrvroTaTIvr/w640-h474/Capture%20d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran,%20le%202023-12-28%20a%CC%80%2009.28.51.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>New Brunswick based <i>Washington Post</i> editorial cartoonist <b>Michael de Adder</b> has made the list of appointments to the Order of Canada.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><br />Michael de Adder, an editorial cartoonist based in Moncton, New Brunswick, joins the member's list for his "artistic contributions and pointed commentary" over the years.<br /><br />De Adder's freelance contract with Brunswick News Inc. (BNI) was <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cartoonist-fired-nb-newspapers-trump-cartoon-1.5196179">terminated</a> days after he shared a cartoon depicting U.S. President Donald Trump playing golf next to the face-down bodies of two Salvadoran migrants.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb9vAyRIITuEUD2smwZP6ovpbJrST-3LYc2EpCVlcrr4hZOynsUnPmGYsU4JInhLXJDe4JIOI9KlARq_mRxj9gRizIT22UPRzJtuWcUG24husiTkmSUGRERVzrfuZVuI4aZBeOalrkA7Ywkt4Ji9P18sY5fotqTsLkWFVkAU4lrWDXkUYnYlkMjbnSvIHB/s563/46b64c759a3c902f4ae17b39d8ee096f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="563" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb9vAyRIITuEUD2smwZP6ovpbJrST-3LYc2EpCVlcrr4hZOynsUnPmGYsU4JInhLXJDe4JIOI9KlARq_mRxj9gRizIT22UPRzJtuWcUG24husiTkmSUGRERVzrfuZVuI4aZBeOalrkA7Ywkt4Ji9P18sY5fotqTsLkWFVkAU4lrWDXkUYnYlkMjbnSvIHB/w640-h554/46b64c759a3c902f4ae17b39d8ee096f.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>While BNI did not publish the cartoon, it went viral online. <div><br /></div><div>While his freelance gig with BNI came to an end, de Adder was employed by the <i>Washington Post</i> two years later, a position he still holds.<br /><br />"I think it's amazing. I can't express how happy it made me. </div><div><br /></div><div>The first feeling you have is unworthy, but it's great," he told CBC News about being inducted into the Order of Canada.<br /><br />De Adder said he does not know what the future holds for editorial cartooning, but awards like the Order of Canada can draw attention to how important his profession is in the current climate.<br /><br />"Every time a cartoonist gets an Order of Canada … it highlights how important editorial cartooning is to democracy," he said. </div><div><br /></div><div>"These days, we're constantly under attack."</div>Badohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274725793236103253noreply@blogger.com0