Melki Melgarejo makes his debut at "L’Eau vive"

  

Paraguayan-born cartoonist Melki Melgarejo is making his debut this week as a contributor to L’Eau vive in Regina.

L’Eau vive, a bi-monthly francophone newspaper in Saskatchewan founded in 1971, is the only francophone newspaper in the province.

It is a member of Réseau Presse, a network of newspapers serving the francophone minority population since 1976.

Lectrr wins European Cartoon Award

Fom The Daily Cartoonist. 

This year’s European Cartoon Award goes to Steven Lectrr Degryse (LECTRR) for his cartoon of Russian opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny. 

The award was presented yesterday during the European Cartoon Day ceremony presented by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht.

The European Cartoon Award, started in 2019, is dedicated to supporting and promoting political cartoons in Europe.

Saudi Arabia sentences Mohammed al-Ghamdi to 23 years

From the Associated Press.

Saudi cartoonist Mohammed al-Ghamdi, who drew under the pen name Al-Hazza, has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, according to the Sanad Human Rights Organization.

The sentence for Mohammed al-Ghamdi marks the latest in a widening judicial crackdown on any perceived dissent in Saudi Arabia since the rise of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now seen as the kingdom’s day-to-day ruler in place of his 88-year-old father King Salman.

Saudi officials did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday from The Associated Press. 

Michael de Adder fired from the Halifax Chronicle Herald

From Reddit.

We have just learned that cartoonist Michael de Adder has been let go from the Halifax Chronicle Herald after working there for almost 30 years.

There will only be two editorial cartoons per week in the Chronicle Herald from now on.

In related news, SaltWire had just been sold to Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper publisher majority owned by the U.S. hedge fund Chatham Asset Management. 

Chatham is also the majority owner of US-based McClatchy newspapers which last year fired their three staff editorial cartoonists and has given up on political cartoons on their papers’ opinion pages.

Also:

Michael de Adder Let Go by Postmedia – Update in The Daily Cartoonist,

2024 Editorial Cartoonist Convention in Montreal

 

Canadian and American editorial cartoonists, as well as a few European guests, are meeting this weekend in Montreal for a conference on the digital future of the profession organized by the McCord Museum.

More details here.

Marilena Nardi at the ECC European Cartoon Center

From the ECC.

Silence, Winner, World Press Cartoon 2018

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

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2024

From Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

CXC 2024 poster art by Evan Salazar

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

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

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

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

The full slate of programming is available at cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org

Cartoon Crossroads Columbus

September 26 - 29, 2024