UK cartoonists have launched “Cartoonists For Gaza” to respond to the humanitarian crisis, they include Martin Rowson, Roger Langridge, Bryan Talbot, and more. Joining the UK cartoonists are others from across Europe and the U.S. such as Oscar Zarate, Bob Fingerman, James Sturm, and scores more. From John Freeman at downthetubes (with a gallery): UK […]
“I deeply regret my Facebook post published on May 1, 2025. I respectfully state before the Hon’ble Supreme Court that I never intended to hurt the sentiments of any community, caste, religion, or to insult any party or individual,” the cartoonist wrote. The Deccan Herald reports on the outcome of an issue that went before […]
The Mediterranean coastal city of Marbella has banned caricature artists from practicing their trade along public roads citing safety concerns. Caricature artists say they’ve worked there for decades without issue, and their work is very popular. According to Sur in English, the delegation of public roads has decided not to authorise, for the moment, permits […]
ImageText, a web-based journal from the Department of English at the University of Florida with free and full public access, has released their most recent and very interesting issue (Vol15 #3) with four feature articles. The articles are: Chris Ware’s New Yorker Covers and American School Shootings by Ryan Banfi The New Yorker commissions and […]
An exhibit curated to showcase offensive cartoons that was cancelled in May for being too offensive has a new site where the proprietors aren’t quite so milquetoast as the original forum owners turned out to be. From Alex Farber at The Times of London: The curator of a cancelled exhibition of political cartoons is confident […]
Cartoonists Rights reports that Turkish prosecutors are appealing the July 24 acquittal of cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu. Zehra had been charged with “obscenity” for a 2020 cartoon that appeared on LeMan magazine. In July a court judged that no crime was committed and acquitted her of all charges. From Cartoonists Rights: After a slow and lengthy process […]
Cuban cartoonist Humberto Lazaro Miranda Ramirez, better known as LAZ, has passed away at the age of 64 on August 4. From the Juventude Rebelde (translated) obituary: Known for his infinite ability to draw Cuban reality from a glance, above all, costumbrista, from a very young age LAZ he was attracted to the drawing and […]
Architecture is, without question, a serious matter—and, over the centuries, some of the most serious voices in the field have endeavored rigorously to theorize about, define, and interpret it. But what happens when we confront this monumental gravitas through the levity? What if we momentarily set aside the lofty and arcane discourse of celebrated architects […]
[Early American comics] themselves showed a wide range of diversity, detail, and creativity … For example, something like Thomas Aolysius’ Johnny Wise Gets the Double Cross would never be published in today’s papers (shown below). That said, there were fantasy strips, strips pulling from cubism and surrealist art, strips that experimented with panel length, perspective, […]
In the early nineties, I spent countless hours digging through foreign publications, hunting for lessons and inspiration. I translated articles, wrote essays, and hoped my fellow Iranian artists would catch the spark I felt. I wanted them to see the magic tucked between the lines, the way Western cartoonists held power to account with nothing […]
Gerard Alsteens, better known as Gal, turns 85 today. He is one of the oldest and beloved political and social cartoonists still working in Belgium. He’s best known for his social commentary. His cartooning career started in 1960 in the magazines De Nieuwe and De Zwijger. Since 1983 his work has been published in the weekly magazine Knack. […]
New Zealand cartoonist Eric Heath has passed away. Eric Walmsley Heath November 28, 1923 to July 27, 2025 We sad to learn that one of the most senior of our Senior Strippers has passed on. From the obituary: He was 101 years old and had just celebrated 75 years of marriage to Barbara… WWII veteran, […]
Nearly 400 artists and 12 associations are signatories to a petition threatening to boycott the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival. The petition accuses the festival’s contracted management company, 9eArt+, of retaliating against a female employee who reported a rape at the 2024 event and criticizes the festival’s organizers (FIBD) for not only resisting efforts to […]
Jon Farley, a retired teacher, was arrested for carrying an enlarged version of a Private Eye cartoon at a Palestinian solidarity rally. Farley was arrested under the Terrorism Act for suspicion of supporting a proscribed organization. Last month, after the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action spray-painted two RAF refueling jets, the group was added to the […]
featuring Sir Quentin Blake, Gluyas Williams, Doug Marlette, Dirk West, Helen Hokinson, and William Hogarth. Quentin Blake Ask ChatGPT to create a portrait of Quentin Blake in the style of Quentin Blake and the results are so preposterously bad, it’s tempting to think that artificial intelligence might not be the death of everything that is […]