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"You Might Be from Nova Scotia If …"
From Nimbus Publishing.You Might Be From Nova Scotia If … is a delightful, illustrated romp through this one-of-a-kind place.From one of the most celebrated cartoonists in the country, Michael de Adder...
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"Making Faces: Portraits by John Kascht"
From Cartoon Art Museum.The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to present Making Faces: Portraits by John Kascht, a retrospective featuring more than 60 original portraits by one of America’s most incisive...
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Lynda Barry is awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant
From The Chicago Tribune.Cartoonist Lynda Barry is one of the 26 winners of the 2019 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants,” the no-strings-attached $625,000 prizes given annually to artists, scholars...
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"Oliphant: Unpacking the Archive"
From the University of Virginia website.From a watercolor of President H. W. Bush depicted as Mary Poppins to President Barack Obama drawn and sculpted as an Easter Island statue, visitors see the...
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Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher Honoured at the AAEC Convention
From the AAEC website.Baltimore-based cartoonist Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher is the 2019 recipient of the "Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning." The panel of judges also decided to...
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Newseum Closing at the End of the Year
From NBC Washington.The D.C. museum dedicated to journalism, the First Amendment and a free press will close at the end of the year. The Newseum said in a statement that the museum will close Dec. 31,...
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Badiucao Wins CRNI’s Courage in Cartooning Award 2019
From the CRNI website.In recognition of his bold defiance and courageous decision to remove the literal mask of anonymity under which he has worked for a decade, Cartoonists Rights Network...
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I wish I'd drawn... (55)
... this cartoon by Marco de Angelis for Cartoon Movement.New flag of Turkey
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Canada Strong and Proud uses de Adder cartoon without his permission
From CTV News.Cartoonist Michael de Adder called out third-party political group Canada Strong and Proud for using his cartoon in an online advertisement without his permission.In a tweet, he wrote “my...
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Cartoonist Stephff Resigns From Bangkok Post
From Twitter.Cartoonist Stephff (Stéphane Peray) announced his resignation last Sunday from the Bangkok Post after three of his cartoons about China and Turkey, submitted in the past week, were not...
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Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics
From The House of Illustration.Day of the Heroic Guerrilla by Helena Serrano, 1968Much of Cuba’s iconic graphic design is instantly recognizable the world over. But alongside the familiar image of Che...
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The battle to keep political cartoons from becoming propaganda
From The Guardian.When The Chronicle Herald’s editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon learned this week that his work had been ripped off by some far-off politician, whom he had never heard of, his first...
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Rusins Kaufmanis 1925-2019
From The Ottawa Citizen.Rusins, The Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 1965Rusins Kaufmanis (Rusins), political cartoonist for the Ottawa Citizen from 1963 to 1989, passed away September 20, 2019 in...
View ArticleThreats to Freedom of Speech; Is Humor The First Casualty?
The Columbus Metropolitan Club recently posted an hour long video of the panel from Sept. 26 at this year's AAEC convention.Professionally recorded and produced, "Threats to Freedom of Speech; Is...
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Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art
From the Billy Ireland Library and Museum website.Party Scene, by Mary Fleener, 1982The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum presents Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and...
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Philip Street is bringing back "Fisher"
Philip Street will be posting seven of his Fisher comic strip every week on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.Six days a week, the posts will feature older strips (starting from 2002), but a brand-new...
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"Drawn to Presidents: Portraits and Satirical Drawings by Drew Friedman"
From the Billy Ireland Library and Museum website.Abraham Lincoln by Drew Friedman (All the Presidents, Fantagraphics, 2019)Pennsylvania-based illustrator Drew Friedman has employed his intensely...
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"Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2019"
From The Independent.Tim Benson looks back at the cartoons of 2019 and asks how far can you go to provoke.In April, the international edition of The New York Times published a controversial cartoon. It...
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AAEC launches new website
From the AAEC website.The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists quietly launched its new site last Friday. The update, which keeps the same address, replaces a stalwart site that has been...
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“Cartoonists vs. Conspiracy” International Cartoon Contest
From the United Sketches website.The rise of conspiracy theories in recent years, the proliferation of false news on the Internet and the worrying emergence of a “post-truth” era where the facts seem...
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