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2018 AAEC Convention
From the AAEC website.This year's gathering of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists will take place Sept. 20-23 in Sacramento, CA.Hosts Jack Ohman and Pat Bagley released the convention's...
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World Humour Awards 2018
From World Humour Awards.The prizes of the third edition of the contest have been awarded and will be given out at the awards ceremony Saturday September 1st. at Hotel Terme Baistrocchi in...
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A positive message from the Niels Bugge’s Cartoon Award
We are happy to inform you that The Niels Bugge Cartoon award is going to be held this year, and will continue as an international cartoonist competition with all the central elements of the event...
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Meet the cartoonist chronicling the unrest in Nicaragua
From Roads and Kingdoms.Pro-Ortega paramilitaries have been accused of killing and abducting hundreds of civilians in recent months.Nicaraguan cartoonist Pedro Molina says the country’s paramilitary...
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I wish I'd drawn... (49)
...this wonderful cartoon by Hamilton Spectator cartoonist Graeme MacKay.
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The first exhibition of "Caricaturist stars of the World" in Iran excludes women
A comment from Italian cartoonist Paolo Lombardi about the "Caricaturist stars of the World" exhibition in Iran :September will see an exhibition in Iran where were the greatest cartoonists in the...
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The Village Voice is no more
From The New York Post.The storied New York tabloid the Village Voice— already down to around two dozen employees — is now officially dead, its owner announced Friday.Half of the staff will be fired,...
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Davor Štambuk 1934-2018
Croatian cartoonist Davor Štambuk, born in Split on December 29, 1934, passed away in Zagreb on March 7, 2018.From ECC Cartoonbooks Club:Davor Stambuk, born in Split in 1934, was a journalist first. He...
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Pedro Molina Wins Courage in Cartooning Award
From Cartoon Movement.Pedro X. Molina of Nicaragua is a long-standing proponent of freedom of expression and a tireless ally of cartoonists in trouble elsewhere. Of late he has had cause to chronicle...
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Celebrating 30 years of photojournalism at Visa pour l’Image
Olivier Laurent in The Washington Post.Beyond the exhibitions and screenings, where hundreds of thousands of visitors can discover or rediscover some of the best of photojournalism produced around the...
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"NOT the National Portrait Gallery" Exhibition
Clive Goddard writes in Pro Cartoonists.© Richard Jolley/ Private Eye“No, its ‘Not the National Portrait Gallery’ but it is right on its doorstep in a brand new gallery space at Charing Cross...
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Herald Sun Cartoonist Defends Serena Williams Cartoon
From the HuffPost.An Australian cartoonist is standing by his cartoon of Serena Williams that perpetuates the racist and sexist “angry black woman” trope.Mark Knight, the editorial cartoonist for the...
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Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez joins the Las Vegas Review-Journal
Jason Bracelin on the Las Vegas Review-Journal website.In between organic chemistry and biology, there was surfing.Ever since he was a teenager, Michael Ramirez loved the ocean.As an undergrad at the...
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The Death of Editorial Cartooning
J.J. McCullough in The National Review.The cartoonist's choice: Navigate a minefield of heightened sensitivities or produce pandering dreck for an audience of ideologues.It is the opinion of Serena...
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Editorial cartoonists at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
From Cartoon Crossroads Columbus.The AAEC will have a table Saturday & Sunday, Sept. 29 & 30, at the CXC — Cartoon Crossroads Columbus in the Expo and Book Fair at the downtown Columbus...
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Pedro Molina on the human rights crisis in Nicaragua
Cherian George in Drawing Fire.It’s been six months since a wave of protests in Nicaragua sparked violent reprisals by the government of Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo. So far, police and...
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The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive
From Black Dog and Leventhal.This monumental, two-volume, slip-cased collection includes nearly 10 decades worth of New Yorker cartoons selected and organized by subject with insightful commentary by...
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Political Cartoonist Hermenegildo Sábat Dies at 85
From The Buenos Aires Times,Hermenegildo “Menchi” Sábat, the award-winning political cartoonist best known for his work with the Clarín newspaper, died peacefully in his sleep yesterday at the age of...
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Banksy painting self-destructs minutes after being sold at auction
From CTV News.Moments after a famous Banksy painting was sold for more than $1.7 million during a live auction, the piece was shredded from inside its frame.The anonymous street artist’s 2006 work...
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Launching the new Sequential Magazine
From Sequential.A revival of Sequential’s magazine edition by Canadian Independent Comic Book Wiki founder Brendan Montgomery. The goal of this publication is to expand the efforts of both Sequential...
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