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Winners of the 19th PortoCartoon Festival 2017
From Museo Virtual do Cartoon.Here are the winners of the 19th Festival PortoCartoon 2017, chosen among the 1 500 works submitted by more than 400 artists from 62 countries.First PlaceLuc Vernimmen...
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Turkish Artist Zehra Doğan Sentenced to Prison for Painting of Kurdish Town...
From Humorgrafe.Turkish-Kurdish painter and journalist Zehra Doğan has been sentenced to 2 years, 9 months, and 22 days in prison for creating a painting which depicted the destruction caused by...
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Jack Ziegler 1942-2017
Jack Ziegler, born in Brooklyn, NY on July 13, 1942 has died in Kansas City on March 29.He had been contributing to The New Yorker since February of 1974 where he published well over a thousand...
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Reprint in the Cartooning for Peace Cartoon Gallery
From Cartooning for Peace.The original version of Thursday's cartoon in Le Droit was featured in the weekly Cartooning for Peace Cartoon Gallery.
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"La Caricature, 1830-1835 : Lithographies complètes"
From Michael Shamansky, Bookseller.La Caricature was the 19th Century equivalent and the precursor of Charlie Hebdo. The editor Charles Philipon employed the major satirical artists of the mid-19th...
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"Aislin: 50 Years of Cartoons"
From the McCord Museum.The exhibition Aislin: 50 Years of Cartoons will present a retrospective of the best cartoons created by Aislin over the 50-year course of his far-reaching career.As a result of...
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50 years of Aislin at the McCord
Marina Scott in the Montreal Gazette.In his 50 years as an editorial cartoonist, Terry Mosher — better known as Aislin— has created more than 12,000 cartoons. Half of those are preserved at the McCord...
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Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart faces 29 years in prison
From Cartoonists Rights Network International.“Date 12 September 1980 – We have found ideal/suitable ground to climb up!” In a 2004 cartoon published in Cumhuriyet, Kart depicts Fethulla Gülen as...
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Winners of the Euro-Kartoenale 2017
From the ECC website.Cover art by Elena OspinaHere are the winners of the 21st edition of the Euro-Kartoenale. The contest received 2164 cartoons by 782 artists from 82 different countries.The prize...
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Miami Herald cartoonist Jim Morin wins 2017 Pulitzer Prize
From the Pulitzer Prizes website.For a distinguished cartoon or portfolio of cartoons, characterized by originality, editorial effectiveness, quality of drawing and pictorial effect, published as a...
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19th Annual World Press Freedom Day Awards Luncheon
From the website of the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom.We invite you to join us at the 19th Annual World Press Freedom Day Awards Luncheon on May 2nd at the Fairmont Chateau-Laurier Hotel...
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Banned in the U.S.A.
Tristin Hopper in The National Post.For the first time, a Canadian book has nabbed top billing on an annual ranking of books that Americans have tried their hardest to ban.This One Summer, a graphic...
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"The Inking Woman" Exhibition at the Cartoon Museum
From Cartoon Museum.An exhibition of British women cartoon and comic artists will take place at the Cartoon Museum in London.This exhibition of over 80 diverse artists follows the evolution of British...
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Nominations for the 2017 Doug Wright Awards
From The Doug Wright Awards Blog.Chester Brown, Michael DeForge, Julie Doucet, Chris Oliveros and John Martz lead the nominations for the 2017 Doug Wright Awards, a featured event at the 2017 Toronto...
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Cartoon Xira 2017
From the website of the Municipality of Xira.Internationally renowned cartoonist Quino will be joining the national guests for this edition of "Cartoon Xira", which will take place from April 22 to May...
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Raeside's second compilation of "The Other Coast" comic strip.
Cathryn Atkinson in Pique News Magazine.Cartoonist Adrian Raeside is a great person to have lunch with on St. Patrick's Day.Two Guinnesses into it and the craic and laughter are flowing. Listening to...
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Reprint in the Cartooning for Peace Cartoon Gallery
From Cartooning for Peace.The original version of Wednesday's's cartoon in Le Droit was featured in the weekly Cartooning for Peace Cartoon Gallery.
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Elections in France
France votes today in the first round of its' presidential election. The final round will take place on May 7th.
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Spitting Image set to return to TV
From the Daily Mail.The programme's creators Roger Law, pictured left, and Peter Fluck, pictured right, are seen among a selection of their puppets.Spitting Image is set to return to TV screens as it...
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Guy Delisle on tour for "Hostage"
From Facebook.Join award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) for the launch of his highly anticipated, non-fiction page-turner: Hostage. Set in the...
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