Michael de Adder dropped from New Brunswick newspapers

Cartoonist Michael de Adder was let go from all newspapers in New Brunswick. His cartoons will no longer appear in the Moncton Times & Transcript, the Fredericton Daily Gleaner and the Saint John Telegraph-Journal.

On a positive note, he has just finished a book that will be out in September and he still freelances for both The Toronto Star, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald  and The Hill Times. According to de Adder, "It's a setback, not a deathblow".

Cartoon Museum set to re-open on 1st July

From Boys adventure comics.

The new Cartoon Museum will open to the public on Monday July 1st 2019 at its new home on Wells Street near Oxford Circus.

I wish I'd drawn... (53)

...this wonderful cartoon by Danish cartoonist Niels Bo Bojesen.

Boris Johnson, the favourite to become the next U.K. prime minister, said that party members were not interested in why police were called to his home after neighbours heard a loud altercation between Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds.

On Israel Sensitivity to Criticism

Ofri Ilany in Haaretz.

Israelis enjoy having the freedom to insult and mock others in politically incorrect ways, but watch out when the tables are turned.

Early last week, The New York Times made a dramatic announcement. James Bennet, the editorial page editor, stated that the paper had decided to do away with political cartoons in its international edition. 

Marilena Nardi on the role of satire

From Slowcomix.

Following a controversy over a cartoon considered to be anti-Semitic, the New York Times announced that it would no longer publish editorial cartoons in its' international edition. In the local one, however, the cartoons have already been eliminated for some time.

I wish I'd drawn... (52)

... this wonderful cartoon by Dale Cummings.

"Enemy of the People: A Cartoonist's Journey" by Rob Rogers

On the IDW Publishing website.

After 25 years as the political cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rob Rogers was fired for drawing cartoons critical of President Trump.

In Enemy of the People Rogers writes, “Trump’s open embrace of the darkest, ugliest corners of human nature has emboldened racists, neo-Nazis, criminals, thugs, despots, misogynists and liars to come out from under their rocks and display their shameful behavior publicly.