Nease cartoon stirs controversy

 From CBC News.

First Nations leaders in southern Ontario say the media has to do better at reconciliation after a newspaper ran an offensive cartoon depicting Indigenous people asking the Pope for financial compensation.

"You can't speak out of both sides of your mouth — to Indigenous people one way, and then what you print to the general Canadian population," said Laurie Carr, chief of Hiawatha First Nation.

Metroland Media's seven Simcoe County newspapers ran a cartoon last week that pictured the Pope saying "I'm sorry" to what appears to be an Indigenous woman and man, who respond "How $orry?"

Carr, who sits on one of Metroland Media's advisory councils in Peterborough, said "it's really disturbing" to see a cartoon published like that in 2022.

Ed Hall in "Le Monde" (take 3)

 

Ed Hall's cartoon of Vladimir Putin, contemplating the sinking of the Moskva, was published in today's Le Monde.

Previous cartoons by the Florida cartoonist were also published there in August and November 2021.

Political Cartoonist Sergei Elkin Flees Russia

 From The Moscow Times.

Russia’s most prominent political cartoonist Sergei Elkin announced Wednesday that he had left Russia amid a wartime crackdown on journalism. He is now in Bulgaria.

Over the years, Elkin has lampooned politicians, businessmen, and international elites in media outlets across the world — including The Moscow Times, who published his series, “Putin’s Russia” in print and online.

2021 Joe Shuster Awards

  From the Beat Comics Culture.

Over the weekend the 2021 Joe Shuster Awards finally announced its winners after significant delays. 

The nominees for the Canadian comics awards – which recognised work produced in 2020 – were released late last year, throughout the month of December 2021 and one category’s nominees weren’t even announced until January 1, 2022.

2022 World Press Photo Contest

From World Press Photo.

The jury of the 2022 Photo Contest selected Amber Bracken’s photograph Kamloops Residential School as the World Press Photo of the Year, and Saving Forests with Fire by Matthew Abbott as the World Press Photo Story of the Year.

Great minds

 

Danish cartoonist Niels Bo Bojesen posted the above cartoon on Twitter yesterday morning.

It so happens that I had a somewhat similar idea a few weeks ago:

"Streamink" by Boligán

 From Amazon.

The 127 illustrations composing Streamink: Drawings about ourselves delve into the most diverse situations of everyday life and portrait the effects the digital world has had in our collective dynamics. 

Through Boligán’s drawings filled with sensibility and insurpassable graphic talent, we can reflect, understand — and also laugh — about the complexities that we confront in our coexistence with technology and its diverse manifestations.