Jordan Alert – Emad Hajjaj

 From Cartooning for Peace.

"Israel asks the United States not to sell F35 to the United Arab Emirates"

The Criminal Magistrate’s Court of Amman (Jordan) has decided to cease the prosecution of cartoonist Emad Hajjaj.

Cartooning for Peace welcomes the court’s decision, taken at a hearing on 23 December 2020, to drop charges against the cartoonist for “contempt of a president of a foreign country against the provisions of 122/1 of the Penal Code” following the publication of the above cartoon .

The final AAEC Notebook

 From Twitter.

The annual AAEC Notebook is back from the printer and headed out to members this week! 

As this may be the last print edition of the 63-year-old editorial cartoonist publication, we wanted to go out with a bang. Good riddance, 2020.

Happy 2021 !

 

Cartoon by Dale Cummings

Cartoon by Dušan Petričić

Gary Clement"s 2020 A-Z

 From Twitter.

The year in cartoons 2020: Patrick Corrigan and Michael de Adder

From The Toronto Star. 

Clay Bennett: 2020 in Cartoons

From The Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Signe Wilkinson (semi-) retires from daily cartooning

 From The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Signe Wilkinson, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and the cartoonist for The Inquirer and Daily News since 1985, is stepping down from daily cartooning at the end of 2020.

She will continue to make occasional guest appearances through her syndicate.