Scott Bateman, former King Features political cartoonist, writes in to announce that he’s on say that he’s on day 190 (okay, technically, yesterday was 190 – today is 191) of his project to produce an animated cartoon every day for a year. His latest cartoon features a score board of sorts counting the number of […]
Prickly City cartoonist Scott Stantis has a op-ed piece with his take on the Mohammad cartoon controversy. Newspapers with a long and storied history of cartoonists have seen fit to cut loose this valuable resource. Papers like the Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun are now without a staff cartoonist. The Chicago Tribune recently dedicated […]
I sometimes wonder about the effectiveness of cartoons that are “insider-ish.” Yesterday’s Natural Selection, by Russ Wallace, depicting a political cartoonist entering the witness protection program, was funny and topical, but how did it square with the rest of the newspaper reading public?
The Newseum is sponsoring a discussion on how publications should cover the cartoon controversy. The panel includes Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News. How did the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad come to spark violent Islamic protests? Where should we draw the line between free speech and religious tolerance? What issues does […]
The government of Malaysia may revoke The New Straits Times’ permit to print after it ran a Non-Sequitur cartoon. Wiley Miller’s February 20th’s Non Sequitur depicts an artist with a sign saying “Caricatures of Muhammad while you wait.” The New Straits Times got a show-cause letter from the Internal Security Ministry and was given three […]