Cartoonist Ben Garrison won't attend White House summit

On The Hill website.

A political cartoonist accused of making an anti-Semitic image will no longer attend President Trump’s social media summit after his White House invitation was criticized by Jewish groups, Politico reported.

A senior administration official said Ben Garrison will no longer be attending the event on Thursday, according to the news outlet.

World Press Cartoon 2019 (my cartoons)

Two of my cartoons have been exhibited and published in the catalogue of the 2019 edition of World Press Cartoon, in the Portuguese city of Caldas da Rainha.

"Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme" at the Poster House

From the Poster House website.

Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters.

Through exhibitions, events, and publications, Poster House presents a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s, to their present-day use. 

Newspaper editorial cartoons face 'existential threat'

From CBC Radio.

The editorial cartoon is facing an "existential threat" in the face of shrinking newsrooms and meme culture, according to a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.

"Editorial cartoons … do cause a lot of trouble,' said Nick Anderson, who draws for The Washington Post Writers Group.

Joint ACC - AAEC Conventions

We are happy to announce that Ottawa will be hosting, next May 14-17, the 2020 conventions of both the Association of Canadian Cartoonists and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

MAD Magazine Is Shutting Down

From Pop Politics.

MAD Magazine #548, October 2017, Tom Richmond.

I just heard from a friend of mine who is in a Facebook group with MAD writer Stan Stinberg that, after the next two issues, MAD will no longer be publishing original material. Instead, it’ll publish reprinted material until it’s subscription responsibilities are fulfilled and then the magazine will cease publication.

The Fragile State of the Political Cartoon

From Politico Magazine.

The reaper came for another editorial cartoonist over the weekend.

The Brunswick News newspaper group in Canada canceled Michael de Adder’s contract a couple of days after he distributed a cartoon on Twitter depicting Donald Trump on the fairway, golf club in hand, asking two face-down, drowned migrants, “Do you mind if I play through?”