One scholar suggests that perhaps money, not fear, was the reason Yale University Press decided not to publish the Danish cartoons in the book The Cartoons That Shook the World. Can you imagine a better way to set the stage for a major Alwaleed gift? Hosting for a semester the very person who structured the […]
“Compare to Disney” will screen Saturday at Madcap Theaters in Tempe. The program – a production of Oregon film scholar Dennis Nyback – features up to nine non-Disney cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s that offer a stark contrast to the famous studio’s wholesome style. In the cartoons, Little Red Riding Hood is a sexy […]
The Arab European League is being prosecuted in the Netherlands for insulting Jews by publishing a cartoon suggesting they invented the Holocaust. The cartoon shows two men beneath a sign reading â??Auschwitzâ??â?? and beside several bodies. The men say the victims might not have been Jewish but they still had to â??get toâ??â?? six million […]
Victor Vazquez of rap duo Das Racist challenged the New Yorker’s Farley Katz to a cartoon-off. Vazquez wasn’t too pleased with Katz’s “lazy journalism.”
A look back one year later at Lynn Johnstonâ??s decision to change the format of â??For Better or For Worseâ? from current story-lines to â??new-runs.â?
Aaron Hill — “Luann” character or Toronto Blue Jay’s second baseman? Ohio town mentioned in “Zits” comic strip.
Nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist Ted Rall will be a speaker at the Wright State Universityâ??s 2009-10 Presidential Lecture Series on Friday, Sept. 4. Other speakers include Chris Sacca, the former head of Google Inc.â??s special initiatives, and Greg LeMond, the first American to win the Tour de France.