Sometimes even a good cartoon becomes obsolete before it sees print. Mike Luckovich seems caught between Walter Isaacson’s book extract and Isaacson’s backpedaling on the issue of Musk, Starlink and the Ukrainian war effort. Isaacson’s book made the claim that Musk had foiled a Ukrainian sea drone attack on the Russian fleet at Sevastopol by […]
From the New Yorker: Kais al-Hilali, a thirty-four-year-old Libyan cartoonist, was shot and killed late last month while painting one of the political street murals for which he was locally famous. According to witnesses, he had just drawn a caricature of Muammar Qaddafi on a wall in Benghazi (above) when the bullet hit. Several cartoonists […]
Libyan state run television didn’t take too long to mention Denmark’s involvement in the NATO enforced no-fly zone was connected to the Danish Mohammad cartoons published in 2005. On Tuesday morning, Libyan television accused Denmark – falsely – of controlling the operation that destroyed Bab al-Azizya, Gaddafi’s headquarters in Tripoli. The Libyan news announcer, who […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists is reporting that six Libyan journalists are missing after three spoke out against Moammar Gaddafi. One of the journalists is editorial cartoonist Mohamed al-Amin. At least six local journalists who spoke critically of government policies are also missing, although there is wide speculation that they are in the custody of […]