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News Briefs for April 13, 2009

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Alan Gardner April 13, 2009 1 minute 0 comments

Editorial Cartooning

» Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger will be on the campus of the University of Tennessee’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy today speaking to students about politics and cartooning.

International

A recent raid by Iraqi police on an exhibition featuring a cartoon lampooning their prime minister is being criticized by an Iraqi parliamentary committee who believes the raid was a violation of freedom of expression.

Comic Strips

» Dave Astor’s latest column in the Huffington Post includes a mock interview with several comic strip characters.

» For Better or For Worse is back in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner after being dropped last year. Reader complaints prompted the editor to bring it back.