Saturday, March 31, 2018

De Adder shortlisted for an Atlantic Journalism Award

From the Atlantic Journalism Awards website.


Atlantic Books Today has been shortlisted for an Atlantic Journalism Award in the category of Best Magazine Cover for the Spring 2017 issue, featuring the work of political cartoonist Michael DeAdder.


Friday, March 30, 2018

The 23rd International Cartoon Contest "Humour a Gallarate" Italy 2017


A cartoon I drew for Le Droit about Brexit was selected for the catalogue of the 23rd International Cartoon Contest "Humour a Gallarate" in Italy.

The theme was "On the road" and the winning cartoons can be found here.

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Boligan wins 11th Don Quichotte Cartoon Contest


First Prize / Angel Boligan, Mexico

The theme of the contest was "child brides".

Other finalists:

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

"Setting the Standard’"


An exhibition of original cartoons celebrating 90 years of political cartoons from the Evening Standard featuring Low, Vicky, Jak, Blower and Adams

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Interview with "The American Bystander" editor

Steven Heller in Print.

Cover of issue #6 by Arnold Roth

Cry and you cry alone. Michael Gerber, the founder and publisher of The American Bystander, the last of the sophisticated American humor magazines, may be committed.

In fact, he is committed to print. Once, the field was full of funny mags; now, trenchant humor has migrated to late-night television and the digital world as populated by laff-makers too. 

Has this hurt the following of Gerber’s magazine? Let’s see.

Monday, March 26, 2018

Niels Bugge Award in jeopardy


The participants to the Niels Bugge Cartoon Award were informed yesterday that the competition organizer, Niels Bugges Kro & Hotel, went bankrupt.

At the moment, the organizers of the contest were trying to find a way to continue the project on a smaller scale and will presumably be able to announce the winners in September.

Friday, March 23, 2018

"Trump's ABC"

From Fantagraphics.


The Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Ann Telnaes has over the last 20 years skewered injustice, inequality, sham, hypocrisy, racism, misogyny, and corruption with her incendiary combination of elegance, wit, and moral suasion.