The 2024 European Cartoon Award finalists have been announced. The finalists are Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands), Steven Lectrr Degryse (Belgium) and Victor Solís (Mexico). The European Cartoon Award was started by the European Press Prize and Studio Europa Maastricht in 2019 after the New York Times announced it would no longer run editorial cartoons. The purpose of the prize is […]
Ed Maclachlan, recognized as “one of our greatest living cartoonists,” has passed away. He was 84 years old. Ed was born in 1940 in Humberton, Leicestershire. According to Lambiek Comiclopedia, he studied art at Leicester College of Art (now DeMontfort University) from 1957-1961. His first published cartoons were in the college publication Lucifer. He began […]
Fifteen years after the passing of Watford Observer sports cartoonist Terry Challis, the paper is publishing a selection of his Drawn Game cartoons and has posted several of his cartoons on their website. Visit The Watford Observer to see the collection.
The Cartoon Museum in London, England, has been nominated for a Best in Heritage Award for their work with autistic young people. The international award recognizes excellence in museums, heritage and conservation. The museum runs a “Relaxed Monday” event each a month “specifically designed for children and young people with autism spectrum conditions or sensory […]
The inclusion of EWK Prize winner Mohammad Sabaaneh at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) has faced pushback due to accusations that his work contains antisemitic imagery. With less than a week until the kickoff of the 12th installment of the festival, Rob Lownie writes in UnHerd about the difficulty within LICAF board members […]
Cartoonist Pete Songi has launched a new digital magazine called The New Cartoonist. The inaugural issue is 48 pages long and features over 50 cartoonists along with interviews, articles, and animation videos. The cover was drawn by Mark Winter (AKA Chicane). Pete says the idea for the magazine dates back several years and was inspired by a short-lived UK publication called The Cartoonist. […]
Earlier this morning, 34 international organizations representing freedom of press, speech and journalism released a statement condemning Egypts detention of cartoonist Ashraf Omar along with other journalists. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) released the following statement: The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists condemns in the strongest possible terms the arrest and detention of […]
Thirty-four organizations representing freedom of press, speech and journalism have condemned Egypt’s arrest and disappearance of Egyptian journalists and cartoonist Ashraf Omar and are calling for their immediate release. They note that there are 11 other journalists that have been detained for over two years without trial. From their press release: The Committee to Protect […]
This year’s Galway Cartoon Festival, in Ireland, will feature an American cartoonist – Dave Coverly, creator of Speedbump. Dave submitted cartoons last year for their festival exhibit and was happy to get an invitation to be a featured guest at this year’s festival. While this may be Dave’s first time at the Galway Cartoon Festival, […]
In what is becoming an unsettling pattern, an Egyptian state security prosecutor extended the detention for cartoonist Ashraf Omar for yet another two weeks. It is his fourth extension since he was abducted from his home in July by plainclothes officers. Ashraf, whose work appears in Al-Manassa, has been a vocal critic of the Egyptian government. He’s […]
Cartoonist Michael Leunig, a fixture for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, for 55 years, was laid off along with dozens of others across Nine Entertainment Co’s chaing of newspapers. The media company claims the layoffs were necessary due to declining advertising and the loss of $15 million in revenue from Meta. Michael says […]
British cartoonist Bill Stott passed away on August 25. His career began as an art teacher in Liverpool. His cartooning career started at Punch magazine in the late 1970s. Bill described his early career as “teaching when it was light and drawing cartoons when it wasn’t.” He was a founding member of the Professional Cartoonists’ Organization and a member of the […]
The UK Column has posted a 90-minute video interview with Bob Moran, former political cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph. Bob is a libertarian cartoonist who took a strong position against Covid restrictions in Britain and was eventually fired from the Telegraph for tweets calling for his followers to verbal abuse a British NHS doctor. From the […]
The Galway Cartoon Festival has announced their line-up for this year’s event. The annual festival in Galway Ireland will feature Lucie Arnoux, Dave Coverly, Ben Jennings, Malak Mattar, Will McPhail, and Dean Patterson. The Galway Cartoon Festival was established in 2017 with the objective to “nurture, promote, and develop the art of the cartoon in […]
The South African Film and Publication Board gave The Showerhead documentary a “16 LNPSV” rating (suitable for over 16, containing language, nudity, prejudice, sex, violence). The film focuses on Jonathan Shapiro’s (AKA Zapiro) controversial cartoons during the Jacob Zuma presidential term, challenging the boundaries of freedom of expression. Producers of the film are appealing the […]