Bye Bye 2012!

Here is a version of the cartoon published on the cover of today's Le Droit newspaper.

We can recognize from left to right and top to bottom (on a background of red squares): Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Premier Jean Charest, Bashar al Assad, Minister Vic Toews, Dominique Strauss Khan, Lance Armstrong and Gérard Depardieu.

A conversation with Bizarro cartoonist Dan Piraro

Marc Librescu in The Comics Journal.

Dan Piraro is the creative mind behind the award-winning cartoon Bizarro. First syndicated in 1985, Bizarro has developed a loyal following and now appears internationally in more than 350 daily and Sunday newspapers.

Clay Bennett: 2012 in Editorial Cartoons

The original post is interactive but since I can't reproduce the effect, here are the cartoons in close-up:

Egyptian Cartoonist sued by rights NGO

From The Egypt Daily News.

You would have never been expelled from heaven had you voted in favour of the referendum!

The secretary-general of the National Centre for Defence of Freedoms has filed a lawsuit against Naguib Sawiris, the owner of Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, and their cartoonist Doaa El-Adl. The lawsuit, filed on Sunday, is in response to a cartoon depicting Adam and Eve, which the Secretary-General of the centre,  Salafist lawyer Khaled El-Masry said was insulting of the prophet.

Robert Ariail wins 2012 Berryman Award

Michael Cavna in Comic Riffs.

Robert Ariail’s cartoons about geopolitics can range from the warmly humorous (See: Greece as the economic houseguest who won’t leave) to the deadly serious (President Assad painting himself into a corner with Syrian blood on his hands).

For such cartoons that reflected that diversity of his approach, Ariail has just been named the 2012 recipient of the Berryman Award, which is presented by the National Press Foundation.

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" from Richard's Poor Almanac

From the Cul de Sac blog.

Richard Thompson drew this in 1997, on the 100th anniversary of the editorial.

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