Paul Coker Jr., 1929-2022

From The Comics Journal.

Paul Coker Jr., prolific cartoonist, illustrator, and longtime MAD Magazine contributor, passed away at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 23, 2022, at the age of 93.

The New Yorker pays tribute to Sempé

 

The above, "Morning Music", is Sempé's 114th cover for The New Yorker. The issue features an interview with his widow Martine Gossieaux.

Filmmaker Gerald Potterton (1931–2022)

From Web Mag.

Buster Keaton and Gerald Potterton during the production of The Railrodder in 1965.

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is saddened to learn of the death of filmmaker Gerald Potterton, who died at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville, Quebec, on the evening of Tuesday, August 23, at the age of 91.

Cartoon in New Brunswick paper causes social media outcry

From Global News.

Cartoon by Marcel Boudreau

A cartoon published in Wednesday’s edition of l’Acadie Nouvelle, an independent French-language newspaper in New Brunswick, is causing a social media outcry.

Marcel Boudreau’s cartoon depicts a caveman dragging a woman juxtaposed with the image of a man wearing a turban carrying a gun, who is using a leash to drag a woman wearing a burqa.

“You are a racist!" - Analysis of a Twitter storm

From Chappatte Cartoons.

For a few days last June, cartoonist Patrick Chappatte was abundantly called a racist, or islamophobic, or both on Twitter.

The culprit: a cartoon on the anti-abortion decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Let’s take a look back at a troubling experience - which tells us a bit about our era of social media.

Aislin cartoon at heart of discrimination lawsuit in the U.S.

From the Montreal Gazette. 

A former Delta Air Lines flight attendant is filing an employment discrimination lawsuit, saying she was fired for posting an editorial cartoon on her personal Facebook page by Montreal Gazette political cartoonist Aislin that depicted then-president Donald Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood, CNN reported Saturday.

Jean-Jacques Sempé Dead at 89

French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, known for his illustrations of the adventures of Petit Nicolas and his humorous press cartoons, died on Thursday August 11 at the age of 89, his wife, Martine Gossieaux Sempé, announced to AFP. .

He died "peacefully", "in his 89th year, in his vacation home, surrounded by his wife and close friends", said Marc Lecarpentier, his biographer and friend.