From Cartoonists Rights.
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Cartoonists Rights 2023 pledge drive.
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Mike Ramirez Responds
From Newsweek.
Friday, November 17, 2023
Jen Sorensen Wins 2023 Berryman Award
From The Daily Cartoonist.
The judging panel noted the high quality of candidates from across the country. They were impressed with Sorensen’s “unique” skill in taking on a “galaxy of issues.”
“[Her] cartoons aren’t just reacting to one thing that happened in the news, she looks at bigger trends.”
Sorensen will accept the award, which comes with a $2,500 prize, at NPF’s annual awards dinner on February 15, 2024.
Monday, November 13, 2023
Michael Ramirez and The Washington Post
From The Daily Cartoonist.
Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez spoke to Fox News Digital about The Washington Post pulling his Hamas cartoon and revealed some details of his contract with the paper, and if that relationship will continue.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Ramirez cartoon pulled from The Washington Post
Monday, November 6, 2023
Director of Librexpression Centre on the Steve Bell case
From Cartoon Movement.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
World Forum for Democracy
An opportunity for Cartooning for Peace to launch its report on the situation of threatened cartoonists around the world at the Forum Talk organised during the event:
The Forum Talk will be broadcast live on the World Forum for Democracy's website.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Israeli cartoonist modifies Gaza drawing
From Alba Wafa.
Friday, October 27, 2023
Results of 39th Aydin Dogan International Cartoon Competition
From the Aydın Doğan Foundation.
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First Prize, Pawel Kuczynski, Poland |
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Record price set at auction for single-panel cartoon
From CartoonStock.
Cartoonist Peter Steiner wasn’t among them. And yet, in that week’s issue of The New Yorker, he was somehow able to distill an essential truth of what, for better or worse, or maybe both, the internet was, is, and always will be.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Cartoonists rally to Steve Bell's defense
From the Greek Cartoonists Association Facebook page.
Monday, October 23, 2023
"Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2023"
From Amazon.
Friday, October 20, 2023
"Cartoonists on the line"
From Cartoonists Rights.
Cartooning for Peace and Cartoonists Rights will be releasing, on November 7, "Cartoonists on the Line", a report on the situation of threatened cartoonists around the world.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Steve Bell sacked by Guardian
From the BBC website.
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Photo: Alamy |
The cartoon, featuring Netanyahu operating on his own stomach, showed a cut in the outline of the Gaza Strip.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Montreal Cartoon Art Festival and AI
From the FBDM's Facebook page.
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Portrait: Boum |
The advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are impressive, but there is currently a lack of supervision and regulations to protect creators. The situation worries many, and understandably so.
This is why MCAF wishes to position itself today as an event that focuses on art made by humans.
We're not at all opposed to tools that can lighten artists' workloads, but art generated in whole or in part by artificial intelligence will not be considered for the Bédélys Awards, nor allowed for sale at the Festival.
- Mélanie La Roche, Executive Director
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
The Townsie Award 2023
From the ACC website.
Every two years, the Association of Canadian Cartoonists gives out its Townsend Award, otherwise known as "The Townsie", to both Anglophone and Francophone cartoonists whose work stood out during that period.
This year the prize was awarded both to me and Dale Cummings during our convention last week in San Francisco.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Cold feet at The Guardian
From Sofi Siete.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
AAEC convention in San Francisco
This year's AAEC awards have been announced:
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Star Tribune Eliminates Staff Editorial Cartoonist Position
From The Daily Cartoonist.
The Star Tribune is moving on without an editorial cartoonist, following an announcement Monday that Mike Thompson would be moved from a full-time role to a freelance position.
The independent Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Mike Thompson, who the newspaper hired in April of this year as a staff editorial cartoonist, will now be working for the paper in a freelance position.
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Dustin bites the dust in Gannett newspapers
From Jeff Parker's Facebook page.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
The History of Graphic Design: 1890-1959
Rom Amazon.
History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change whether social, political, or technological has its winners, its losers, its advocates, and its enemies.
Through all the turbulent passage of time, graphic design with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea has distilled the spirit of each age.
Friday, September 22, 2023
"History of Press Graphics, 1819-1921"
From Amazon.
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
David Horsey on the dying breed of editorial cartoonists
From The Seattle Times.
Political cartoonists took up their pens to offend the powerful and defend the downtrodden as soon as the first publishers began hand-cranking newspapers through their printing presses in the 18th century.
Monday, September 18, 2023
The Ottawa International Animation Festival
From the Festival's website.
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Metroland newspaper group faces bankruptcy
From The Globe and Mail.
Toronto Star publisher Nordstar Capital LP plans to put its regional newspaper business into bankruptcy last Friday, a move that will see more than 70 weekly papers converted into digital-only platforms and 605 jobs eliminated.
Friday, September 15, 2023
BBC Scotland removes cartoons of politicians from social media
From BBC News.
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Caricature of Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater |
Winners of the European Cartoon Award 2023
Monday, September 11, 2023
Canadian editorial cartoonists bid farewell to Brian Gable
Saturday, September 9, 2023
Brian Gable turns the page
From The Globe and Mail.
"I was a Globe editorial cartoonist for 35 years. Now, I turn the page to new adventures."
Friday, September 8, 2023
Finalists of the European Cartoon Award 2023
Thursday, September 7, 2023
"Today's cartoonist" on the AAEC website
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Globe and Mail cartoonist Brian Gable retires
Monday, September 4, 2023
Award ceremony of the European Cartoon Award 2023
From Studio Europa Maastricht.
Join us for the award ceremony of the European Cartoon Award 2023 and the exhibition opening of the cartoons on ‘Cartoons Day’.
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Winners of the 50th Salão Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba
From the Salão Internacional de Humor de Piracicaba's Facebook page.
The winners of the 50th Piracicaba International Humor Exhibition were announced on August 26 at the opening ceremony, held at Teatro do Engenho Central.Thursday, August 24, 2023
"Picturing the Game: An Illustrated Story of Hockey"
Friday, August 18, 2023
The AAEC has a new website
From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
Thursday, August 10, 2023
European Cartoon Award 2023 Shortlist
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Winners of the 8th World Humor Awards
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
"30 Years of Wallace & Gromit" Exhibition
From the Cartoon Museum.
The museum will be displaying a treasure trove of Wallace and Gromit goodies, including storyboards, sketches, props and insight from the people that made the film. We will also be exploring the cartoons that inspired Nick Park and his team.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
The story behind Twitter's logo rebrand
From Mother Jones.
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The new logo on the left and Monotype font on the right. |
Monday, July 24, 2023
Steve Breen Leaves The Union-Tribune
From The Daily Cartoonist.
Steve Breen, cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, will no longer be a regular presence at the newspaper.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
The steady decline of opinion pages in newspapers
From CTV News.
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Cartoon by Scott Stantis |
The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark reminder of how an influential art form is dying, part of a general trend away from opinion content in the struggling print industry.
Monday, July 17, 2023
“The Endless Imagination of Bob Staake”
From the Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Internationally known for his iconic New Yorker covers, best selling children's picture books, award winning illustrations and eclectic art, Bob Staake has always worn a variety of creative hats.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
The demotion of political cartoons at the Washington Post
Dan Froomkin at Press Watch.
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Cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Booothby |
What the Post opinion pages always excelled at, however, was political cartooning.
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The McClatchy chain fires three editorial cartoonists
Mike Peterson in The Daily Cartoonist.
(Jack Ohman — Pulitzer Prize, 2016)
(Joel Pett — Pulitzer Prize, 2000)
(Kevin Siers — Pulitzer Prize, 2014)
The McClatchy chain of newspapers, which has been struggling in bankruptcy for more than three years, has decided to cut costs by eliminating three of the USA’s leading editorial cartoonists.Monday, July 10, 2023
When cartoons upset Indian nationalists
From Chappatte's website.
Tweets from ministers, a media craze, an embarrassed German ambassador; a simple cartoon suddenly became a geopolitical affair.
But this furore was just part of a bigger story – the Modi government's growing intolerance of the country's humorists and cartoonists.
Friday, July 7, 2023
"Draw for Change!" Exhibition
From Draw for Change.
The Comics Art Museum in Brussels will host the Draw For Change! exhibition from July 4 to August 28 and from October 21 to November 5, 2023.
Curated by Melanie Andreu, it presents the work of Amany Al-ali (Syria) , Doaa El-Adl (Egypt), Rachita Taneja (India), Victoria Lomasko (Russia), Mar Maremoto (Mexico) and Ann Telnaes (USA). the six cartoonists who star in the 6 episodes Draw For Change! documentary series.
Friday, June 30, 2023
Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani transferred to a Tehran hospital
Monday, June 12, 2023
Pedro X. Molina, 2023 Havel Prize Laureate
From the Human Rights Foundation.
Friday, June 9, 2023
Reuben Award finalists in Editorial Cartooning
From the National Cartoonists Society.