Yesterday I posted news that Iranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye had been sentenced to 25 lashings for depicting a local official in a football (soccer to us Yankees) jersey. Information about the case has been limited, but The Guardian has picked up the story and provides a bit more context and detail. Doesn’t change much, though. […]
The National Cartoonist Society Foundation has offered to match all new donations to the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning Kickstarter effort until it reaches its $10,000 goal. As of this writing, the festival has raised nearly $5,000 which means that it will need to raise at least $2,500 in the next 13 days in order to […]
From The Quad blog at The New York Times: “You can draw all the cartoons you want about things like the global plight of women and it’s this kind of thing that gets people going,” Pett said in a telephone interview Tuesday. To the Kentucky faithful, Pett is raining on their championship parade by criticizing […]
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced this year’s winners of the RFK Book and Journalism Award. In the category of cartooning the honor went to Stephanie McMillan for her series The Beginning of the American Fall and her environmentally themed editorial cartoons entitled Code Green. Michael Cavna interviews Stephanie […]
Today marks the 258th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” cartoon – often thought of as the first editorial cartoon in the Americas. It was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette as a rallying cry unity among the colonies. May the profession continue for many more years and cartoons with labels many more years beyond […]