Chilean cartoonist José “Palomo” Fuentes has passed away in Mexico where he spent most of his adult life in exile. He was 82.Palomo, born in Santiago, Chile in 1943, began his professional life in Chile. He contributed cartoons to El Pingüino, and La Nación during the 1960s. The 1973 coup d’état that brought Augusto Pinochet to power […]
Doonesbury, Hot Rods and Drag Cartoons, Climate Change Panels, and a return to Sally Forth. Smithsonian Reviews G. B. Trudeau Biography From the current issue of Smithsonian Magazine Brandon Tensley reviews Trudeau & Doonesbury. Trudeau has long managed to stay out of the public eye. In Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News […]
The Sydney Morning Herald media writer Calum Jaspan is reporting recent leadership changes at The Guardian is affecting contract cartoonists—specifically First Dog on the Moon. The change places First Dog on “rolling six-month contract.” The last 12 years of First Dog’s contract terms have always been a rolling one-year contract.First Dog tells us he has […]
James Hillier, aka Nordacious, has been told to take down some of his political cartoons because they now break the law after the state of Queensland in Australia passed new laws earlier this month. From Catie McLeod at The Guardian: Brisbane artist contacted by police over works that allegedly violate new Queensland hate speech laws […]
British cartoonist Glen Baxter has passed away. Glen Baxter March 4, 1944 – March 29, 2026 From WePresent in 2020 comes a wonderful account of the life and times of Glen Baxter by Liv Sidall: Confusing us, forcing us to question our relationship with words, pictures, or even the format of books, makes him happy. […]
Australian cartoonist David Rowe and his outlet the Australian Financail Review (AFR) are coming under fire after they published a cartoon that shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu controlling U. S. President Donald Trump in the Iran War. The objection is the use of Jewish tropes rather than just accusing the Israeli state. On SkyNews […]
Yesterday we reported on the winners of the Press Cartoon Belgium Grand Prix that were announced during last weekend’s Cartoonfestival Knokke Heist 2026. The other prizes announced included the De Gouden Hoed (“Golden Hat”) winners. This is an international contest that included 545 submissions from 69 countries. The Golden hat is one of the largest […]
Ecuadorian editorial cartoonist Xavier Bonilla “Bonil” announced on X that he is departing The Diario El Universo where his cartoons been published since 1995. His announcement on X: I’ve been drawing in various media for 40 years, 31 of them at El Universo where I also enjoyed the freedom to opine and share smiles. We […]
The Press Cartoon Belgium has announced the winners of their Grand Prix for 2026. The prize is given to the best cartoons that appear in Belgian press or on social media. The theme of this year’s winers is war and the casualties of war. The first place winner goes to Kamagurka (Luc Zeebroek), second place […]
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will host a first of its kind exhibit called “Queer as Comics” showcasing “strip cartoons, graphic novels and zines that have represented LGBTQIA+ perspectives since the 1940s.”The exhibit includes the artwork of Alison Bechdel, Kate Charlesworth, Jason Chuang, Burton Clarke, Howard Cruse, Leo Fox, Diana Green, Roberta Gregory, Rachael […]
After a year of investigating using a “reverse forensic” approach, Reuters believes it has solved one of the biggest mysteries in the art world: the true identity of muralist (or graffiti artist) Banksy. But spoiler, while they present a very compelling case, the individual they say is “Banksy” has not confirmed their reporting to be […]
The Cartoon Museum in London is turning 20. The museum is home to over 300 years of British cartoon and comic history including over 14,000 artworks and publications. According to their website in the last 20 years they have welcomed 500,000 local, national and international visitors, exhibited more than 200 cartoon, caricature and comic artists, […]
French cartoonist Clément Oubrerie has passed away at the age of 59.Clément, born in Paris, studied art at Penninghen School of Art Direction and Interior Architecture in Paris before moving to the United States where he began his career as a children’s illustrator. His stay in the U.S. ended with time in a New Mexico jail […]
As the dogged Angoulême International Comics Festival tries to aright itself from the cancelation of this year’s festival and the scandalized past of the former organizer, 9eArt+, it has announced the first round of companies that responded to a call for new organizer. Two of the four have connections to the prior organizer.The list of […]
Cartoonist Biniam Solomon was arrested in Eritrea, never tried, and held in detention for 15 years before being released recently. The reasons for his arrest and detention were never explained by the Eritrea government.From the BBC: Known by his pen name Cobra, Biniam gained fame for his critical and witty cartoons tackling political and social issues. […]