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Ann Telnaes reflects on the Charlie Hebdo killings

From The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation.10th anniversary of Charlie Hebdo killings – A visual essay by Ann Telnaes

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Being "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...

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Political 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...

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The 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...

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Nominations 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...

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I 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...

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Jules 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...

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The 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...

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AAEC 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...

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The 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...

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“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...

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25th 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...

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‘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...

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Paper 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.

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World 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...

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Toronto: 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...

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National 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...

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UPenn 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)...

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Musa 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...

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"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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Brad Holland 1943-2025

 We have just learned of the passing of illustrator Brad Hollandafter a fatal operation.  For lack of more information, here are excerpts from his Wikipedia entry.Brad Holland is a self-taught artist...

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Zagreb 2025 Finalists

From the Facebook page of the Croatian Cartoonist Association.I was happy to learn today that the above drawing was given a special mention in the 30th International Cartoon Exhibition “Zagreb 2025”,...

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Marty Two Bulls, Sr. Wins the 2025 Herblock Prize

From The Herblock Foundation.Marty Two Bulls, Sr. has been named the winner of the 2025 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Marty Two Bulls Sr. is an Oglala Lakota originally from the Pine Ridge...

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Yaakov Kirshan 1938-2025

 Yaakov Kirshan, one of the giants of the Israeli cartooning, died Monday after a lengthy illness. He was 87 years old.His comic strip Dry Bones was internationally syndicated and published in The...

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