Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin has come out opposed to resettlement of Syrian refugees in his state. In response Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett ran a cartoon depicting Bevin as scared of his own adopted children from Ethiopia. Bevin stated the following in response: ?They say a picture is worth a thousand words,? Bevin said […]
Malaysian editorial cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, better known simply as Zunar will be visiting and lecturing at the Center for Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville. Zunar has been a target of Malaysian government censorship since 2009. In 2010 he was arrested and charged with sedition. Registration and attendee.
Lexington Mayor Jim Gray has proclaimed that tomorrow is “Joel Pett Day”. The announcement was during a fund-raiser and opening reception of an exhibit of Joel Pett’s 30 years at the Lexington Herald-Leader. From the Herald-Leader: Pett said “the only other time a politician tried to give me something was when I won the Pulitzer […]
Lexington Herald-Leader editorial cartoonist Joel Pett will have an exhibit of his work at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY. The exhibit opens September 18 and runs through the end of October. The opening reception features Signe Wilkinson (Philadelphia Daily News), Jack Ohman (Sacramento Bee), Rob Rogers (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and William Hamilton (The New Yorker). […]
Last week I posted news that an editorial cartoon by Lexington Herald-Leader cartoonist Joel Pett enraged University of Kentucky for criticizing coach John Calipari for ending UK’s annual series with Indiana. Joel describes returning from Washington DC where he helped the Cartoonists Rights Network committee to select a worthy Courage in Cartooning Award for a […]
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 Kentucky Gateway Museum Center will host a new Herblock exhibit entitled From Crayons to Cartoons on Jan. 22. Also featured are former Ledger Independent cartoonists James Mulcahy and John Van Meter. Herb Block worked at the Chicago Daily News before going to the Washington Post in 1946. He worked at The Post under five […]