Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2026

From TCAF.

Considered to be amongst the premier comic arts festivals in the world, TCAF is an annual two day festival in downtown Toronto. 

Held since 2003, TCAF is unique for its scale and scope welcoming 28,000+ local and international visitors and over 315+ artists, and its continued focus on independent arts culture and accessibility remaining a free public and non-commercial arts and cultural festival.

TCAF 2026 will be held from June 6-7, 2026 at our new location Toronto Metropolitan University's Mattamy Athletic Centre, with additional programming in the surrounding neighbourhood. 

Libraries and Education Day and Word Balloon Academy are scheduled for Friday June 5. 

Corax 1933-2026

From Syria Cartoon.

Predrag Koraksić Corax was probably the most famous political cartoonist in the former Yugoslavia. 

He was born in 1933 in the village of Gornja Gorevnica near Čačak, and lost his partisan father to the Chetniks during World War II. 

He finished high school in Zemun and studied architecture in Belgrade. 

In October 2004, he was awarded the French Legion of Honor, and he is the recipient of other awards, including the one called New Optimism (2017).

Norwegian Daily Faces Backlash Over Modi Cartoon

From News 18.

Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten faced massive backlash after it published a racist cartoon depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a snake charmer with a fuel-station filling pipe as the snake. 

The image was used for an opinion article titled “A sneaky and slightly annoying man".

Dave Brown loses "Independent" post

 

British cartoonist Dave Brown was laid off, due to budget cuts, after 30 years at The Independent.

Nominees of the 2026 Doug Wright Awards

From the Doug Wright Awards website.

Here are the nominees of the 22nd annual Doug Wright Awards which will be given out on Saturday June 6 at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto.

Editorial cartoons about the erosion of freedoms displayed in Geneva

Every two years in Geneva, two cartoonists receive an international prize recognizing their commitment and courage.

This year, the winners are Safaa Odah from Palestine and Jimmy “Spire” Ssentongo from Uganda.

Throughout the month of May, their work, along with a selection of topical cartoons, is on display on Quai Wilson.

The 2026 edition is dedicated to three current topics as interpreted by cartoonists from around the world: new empires, the impact of artificial intelligence, and freedoms under attack.

On the Line

Anthony Feinstein in The Globe & Mail.

Strongmen have an extraordinarily thin skin when it comes to laughing at themselves.

It is a striking that these men with enormous power, vast armies, lethal weapons, and apparently limitless self-confidence fear the simple cartoon. 

Is it because they know instinctively that Mark Twain was correct when he had one of his characters observe, “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand”? 

Hitler’s fury at being lampooned by the cartoons of David Low pales, however, when compared to the violence unleashed more than half a century later by 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.