Last week, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts turned 64. TIME magazine ran two stories about Peanuts: See How Peanuts Addressed Feminism, Nuclear War and More and Why Peanuts Endures: ?The Football is Always Pulled Away? From TIME Magazine: Despite their wholesome, all-American reputation, Charlie Brown and his friends embody an amount of malaise better associated with French […]
Last week’s cartoon by Jerry Holbert placed the cartoonist in an awkward position of either admitting he created a cartoon with an historically racist reference OR plead ignorance of the connection between watermelon and African-Americans such as President Obama. Jerry went with ignorance. But that wasn’t credible to a lot of people. Here’s the cartoon […]
From the Times of India Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of New York Times, wrote in a Facebook post: “The intent of the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, was to highlight how space exploration is no longer the exclusive domain of rich, Western countries.” … Rosenthal said Heng “was in no way trying to impugn India, […]