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I read this today:
Cartoons are particularly a unique species. They require different criteria of assessment and approach. Unlike editors and news analysts, cartoonists may not feel obliged to present all sides of the story. Rather they make a blunt assault on the characteristics of their subjects, and pride themselves on being selective in their presentation.
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Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index has, perhaps, the most extensive list of cartoonists on the internet (get listed if you haven’t already!). When ‘big’ issues come to light, he displays some of the best editorial cartoon comments on the subject.
But what I wanted to highlight in this post was Daryl’s latest blog entry (June 29, 2006) on yet […]

Algerian cartoonist Ali Dilem has been imprisoned for, well, annoying his president.
A quote from the Middle East Media Research Institute:
On February 11, 2006, Dilem was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and fined 50,000 dinars (€550), for dozens of cartoons he had published in Liberté during 2003 depicting Algerian President Abdelaziz Boutlefika. Dilem was sentenced under […]

Steve Benson, of the Arizona Republic Newspaper, has caused the biggest wave in the cartoon world since the Danish cartoons of Muhammad earlier this year. Any political comment that casts the American involvement in Iraq in a bad light is going to get some criticism, but this one has pressed all the wrong buttons. 
And you […]

When I first saw the title of this article, I thought that Spiderman was now gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
But as the article says:
“In the latest edition of the Marvel comic Civil War on sale today, Spiderman does the unthinkable and removes his Spidey mask to publicly reveal his hidden identity.”
Hmmm. Does […]