ANC leader sues Zapiro… again
Jacob Zuma, the leader of the African National Congress and presumed next president of South Africa, has filed another suit…
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News Briefs for April 16, 2009
Comic Strips » Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau has a piece in Monday’s New Yorker (now available online). It’s an “unedited…
News Briefs for April 13, 2009
Editorial Cartooning » Marshall Ramsey, editorial cartoonist for the Clarion-Ledger will be on the campus of the University of Tennessee’s…
Japan hoping Manga comics will end recession
Expect more Manga in the coming years. The UK’s Guardian is reporting that one of the strategies for economic correction…
Danish cartoons still causing political problems
The BBC has a great story about the impact of the now famous Danish Mohammed cartoons. Last week’s NATO summit…
Kurt Westergaard returns to drawing board
NRC Handelsblad reports that famed Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is out of hiding (but still under police protection) and has…
French cartoonist acquitted of anti-Semitism
Maurice Sinet, a French cartoonist/satirist, has been acquitted of anti-Semitism. He was charged with the crime after a July article…
Aussie cartoonist Michael Atchison passes at 75
Australian cartoonist Michael Atchison has passed away at age 75 from a cancer he battled since 1994. He spent 40…
News Briefs for January 28 2009
» Boom Studios is bringing back The Muppets in comic form. Roger Langridge is the artist. Look for its debut…
News Briefs for January 26, 2009
» Politico has an article about the difficulty cartoonist will have skewering President Obama. Let’s see… no, this isn’t a…
News Briefs for January 6, 2009
» Magazine cartoonist Mark Anderson has relaunched his site with new features. » Jason Killingsworth writes in Paste Magazine the…
Year end review for 2008: Rollercoaster
2008 might well be described in a word as a roller coaster or to many a third and fourth quarter…
Obama win defeats Kenyan cartoonist plans for world peace
Godfrey Amon Mwampembwa (goes by the name Gado), a Kenyan-based cartoonist heading to the U.N.’s Cartooning for Peace exhibit in…
British archive puts 120,000 cartoons online
W.K. Haselden of the Daily Mirror printed 17 Jan 1906 British Cartoon archive, based at the University of Kent, has…
Bill Leak to be released from hospital
Australian cartoonist Bill Leak is set to be discharged from the hospital after a four day coma and emergency brain…