TCAF unveils 2014 Festival Poster by Isabelle Arsenault

From the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is proud to reveal its second poster image for the 2014 event, by Montreal illustrator Isabelle Arsenault.

If the New Yorker Were Set in Paris

Emily Greenhouse on the New Yorker website.

Last January, the French graphic artists Aurélie Pollet and Michael Prigent, living in Paris and “entourés d’artistes,” invited illustrators to envision the Gallic capital. Under the imprimatur of their association, La Lettre P, they gave them, Prigent told me last week, “a carte blanche to express with the greatest possible force their vision of Paris in an image”—all this “with the covers of The New Yorker in mind.” In implicit homage, Pollet continued, “we wanted to imagine the covers of an imaginary magazine: The Parisianer.”

100 cartoons by Cartooning for Peace for Press Freedom

From Inter Press Service.

The USA are spying on us

A woman and her husband are seated at a table. As she talks, he seems to be ignoring her, his head hidden behind a newspaper.

“At least Obama is listening to me,” she says.

This is just one satirical reference to the ongoing international surveillance scandal, in a book published earlier this month by the French-based group Reporters Without Borders, which works to protect freedom of expression and of information.

The Story Behind "Saying Grace"

David Apatoff in Illustration Art.

Saying Grace, 1951 by Norman Rockwell

The brilliance of Norman Rockwell's painting Saying Grace has always been in plain view for anyone of good will and good taste to appreciate, but since it sold at Sotheby's last week for $46 million, art critics are finally able to appreciate it as well. 

Merry Xmas

Rick McKee wins United Nations/Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award

From The Augustra Chronicle:

A political cartoon criticizing the United Nations’ handling of Syria, drawn by Augusta Chronicle cartoonist Rick McKee, won first place in the international organization’s annual awards.

Reprint on the "National Newswatch" website (2)

I didn't notice it at the time, but a cartoon of mine ran on National Newswatch last December 2nd.