According to Between Friends creator Sandra Bell-Lundy, Mengxin Li has won this year’s 2010 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship. She is a Film and Animation major at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Li was born in China and grew-up in Japan. She received the third place prize at the Beijing International Student Animation […]
From Daryl Cagle’s blog: As incredible as it might seem for a modern European democracy, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is suing for an apology and EUR33,000 ($43,000.00) for a political cartoon, drawn by Martin “Shooty” Sutovec for the SME Daily newspaper, that mocked the Prime Minister’s health by suggesting he didn’t have a backbone. […]
Julie Larson’s The Dinette Set is now with United Feature Syndicate. Julie left Creators Syndicate in January to pursue self syndication citing that she could “sell just as well as a syndicate, especially when it’s one’s own property. I know its going to get #1 priority.” Multiple attempts to contact Julie to ask why the […]
The New York Times reports that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has also blocked YouTube, as well as “certain pages on the Flickr and Wikipedia sites.” “Earlier we were blocking the links,” he said of YouTube, “but when content increased we had to block the whole Web site.” The ban, which also included certain pages on […]
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has issued a statement regarding the “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” urging for tolerance on both sides. In the Quran, Islam’s revealed text, God states: “Invite (all) to the way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching, and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: […]
Yesterday, Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore released his latest animated cartoon entitled “Inky Al-Jihadi” depicting a Jihad on Cartoon Coorespondance Cartoon where individuals can learn how to be offended by drawings of Mohammed no matter how small or insignificant.