Release of Atena Farghadani
From Cartooning for Peace. Atena Farghadani was violently arrested on 13 April 2024 by intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) when she tried to display a drawing near the...
View ArticleMaison du dessin de presse to open in 2027
From Sortir à Paris.After a long period of uncertainty, Culture Minister Rachida Dati has confirmed that the Maison du dessin de presse will indeed open in Paris' 6th arrondissement in 2027.Unveiled in...
View Article2024 Clay Bennett cartoons of the year
The cartoons in this collection can be better viewed in this photo gallery.
View ArticleAnn Telnaes Quits The Washington Post
From Open Windows.(rough of cartoon killed)I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some...
View ArticleAnn Telnaes reflects on the Charlie Hebdo killings
From The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation.10th anniversary of Charlie Hebdo killings – A visual essay by Ann Telnaes
View ArticleBeing "Bado"
From the Historical Society of Ottawa. The editorial cartoons of Bado (alias Guy Badeaux) have offered Le Droit's daily readers a humourous and insightful running commentary on almost a half century of...
View ArticlePolitical Cartoonists on facing Donald Trump
Zach Rabiroff in The Comics Journal.Trump's ABC by Ann TelnaesZach Rabiroff for The Comics Journal investigates the state of political cartooning as the practitioners face a revitalized and seemingly...
View ArticleThe Latrobe Bulletin will do away with editorial cartoons
From The Daily Cartoonist.The Latrobe (PA) Bulletin has decided they can no longer publish opinion pieces – oops, make that political cartoons – “because we strive to better the community, not divide...
View ArticleNominations Open for Courage in Cartooning Award
From The Daily Cartoonist.Cartoonist Rights has announced they are now taking nominations for the 2025 Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award. The award recognizes a cartoonist’s exemplary bravery...
View ArticleI have joined Cartoon Movement
From Cartoon Movement.The English version of the cartoons I draw for Le Droit have been distributed for the last 20 years by Artizans.Unfortunately, since the syndicate went under at the end of...
View ArticleJules Feiffer dies at 95
From The Washington Post.Jules Feiffer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author who was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his...
View ArticleThe uncertain future of editorial cartooning
From Fast Company.Fast Company conducted a Zoom roundtable with a trio of some of the best political artists and illustrators working today: Pulitzer Prize winner Barry Blitt, Pulitzer Prize winner...
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From the European Cartoon Center.The European Cartoon Center Kruishoutem is currently presenting the exhibition Drawing the Principle by Danish cartoonist Niels Bo Bojesen.Niels Bo Bojesen was...
View ArticleAAEC 2025 Convention
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is pleased to announce that it will be teaming up with the Small Press Expo, in September for its' 2025 convention.Many are familiar with the...
View ArticleThe New Yorker 100th Anniversary
The New Yorker celebrates its centenary this month. It’s been one hundred years since our founding editor, Harold Ross, and his wife, Jane Grant, dreamed up what they called a “comic paper” over poker...
View Article“Rea Irvin: An Appreciation" by Seth
From Drawn & Quarterly. Seth (Clyde Fans) offers an homage to Rea Irvin, The New Yorker's first art editor and the man who invented Eustace Tilley.Published in the print edition of the February 17...
View Article25th World Press Freedom Canada International Editorial Cartoon Competition
The theme of the 25th International Editorial Cartoon Competition is:It’s a Trump World At Trump’s first inauguration, it was easy to dismiss « alternative facts » about the size of those in...
View Article‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review
Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.The documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse premieres at Film Forum in New York City last week. Given the current political climate in the United States and...
View ArticlePaper Prints Danziger Cartoon, Publisher Apologizes, Fires Editor
The owners of The Palm Beach Post fired editorial page editor Tony Doris last month after the paper published the above Jeff Danziger cartoon and later condemned it as antisemitic.The full story here.
View ArticleWorld Press Cartoon Oeiras 2025
The 18th edition of World Press Cartoon will take place in the autumn of 2025, once again in Portugal, now back in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, in the municipality of Oeiras.The show continues to...
View ArticleToronto: A Sketchy History
From The Globe and Mail. Brian Gable, seven-time winner of the National Newspaper Award for political cartoons, takes readers on a witty, visual journey through Toronto’s transformation from a modest...
View ArticleNational Newspaper Awards 2024 Nominations
The Canadian Daily Newspaper Association announced the finalists of the 76th National Newspaper Awards.Michael de Adder (Halifax Chronicle Herald / The Globe and Mail), Patrick LaMontagne (Calgary...
View ArticleUPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish
From The Daily Cartoonist.Days after the Trump Administration froze $175 million in federal funding the University of Pennsylvania has terminated the employment of progressive Lecturer (and Cartoonist)...
View ArticleMusa Gümüş 1963-2025
From his website.I have just learned of the passing of celebrated Turkish cartoonist Musa Gümüş.Born in Gaziantep in 1963, he has won a total of 275 awards from competitions both at home and abroad.He...
View Article"Capitulation is contagious"
Adrienne LaFrance in the March issue of The Atlantic.By killing a cartoon that lampooned its owner, The Washington Post set a dangerous precedent.At the height of his powers Jay Gould was known by many...
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