CXC 2020 is Online This Week

 

The 6th annual Cartoon Crossroads Columbus festival will be held online starting this Thursday, October 1.

This year's festival features all-ages workshops, exclusive cartoonist interviews, panel discussions, interactive games, and more! All events are free to attend!

World Press Cartoon awards face down censorship - and COVID-19

From Euro News.

Mandatory masks aside, the coronavirus wasn't able to prevent the 15th World Press Cartoon (WPC) awards event from happening in Caldas da Rainha in Portugal.

The winners of the Libex 2020 competition

 From Vox Europe.

The three winners of the Libex 2020 satirical cartoon competition for freedom of expression were announced on 26 September at the Lectorinfabula festival in Conversano (Italy).

The first prize goes to Marilena Nardi, with a cartoon on the border between caricature and work of art. 

Underground cartoonist and production designer Ron Cobb dies at 83

 From The Hollywood Reporter.

Ron Cobb, the underground cartoonist turned production designer who influenced the making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and helped shape the worlds of Conan the Barbarian, Alien and Back to the Future, has died. He was 83.

Cobb died Monday — his birthday — of Lewy body dementia in Sydney, his wife of 48 years, Robin Love, reported.

The Tallahassee Democrat Apologizes for Published Cartoon

From the Tallahassee Democrat.

Cartoon by Joey Weatherford.

On Monday, the Tallahassee Democrat ran a syndicated editorial cartoon that was offensive to readers. It showed former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a way that some rightly said drew on stereotypes of Jewish people. 

Results of the 15th edition of World Press Cartoon

From World Press Cartoon. 

A disheveled Boris Johnson, by German cartoonist Frank Hoppmann, won the Grand Prix of the 15th edition of World Press Cartoon, at a ceremony which took place last night in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

Jeff Koterba laid off from the Omaha World Herald

Editorial cartoonist Jeff Koterba announced on Facebook today that he was laid off trom the Omaha World Herald after 31 years of daily cartoons at his hometown newspaper.