Ashraf Omar, the cartoonist who worked for the daily Al Manassa, remains imprisoned. He has been in pre-trial detention for more than a year on various charges. On 21 July 2024, Egyptian cartoonist and translator Ashraf Omar was violently taken from his home in Cairo by men in civilian clothes who blindfolded him,
Boycott La Vuelta. The cartoon of 30/08/2025 in CTXT Translation of the cartoon: "Let the world run! Shout the murderers." A group of no more than five people demonstrated against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people as the Israel Premier Tech team passed by in a team
Rachael Ball and Krent Able, two artists from the UK, launched"Cartoonists for Gaza", an initiative that brings together a wide range of authors to respond to the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza through the power of illustration, comics and graphic humour. The project called on the British community of illustrators and cartoonists to
UN declares famine in Gaza. Cartoon of 24/08/2025 in CTXT *Traditional Israeli sweet Many agencies and institutions warned a long time ago that this was going to happen. Let's just say that now the results of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis only "technically" reinforce what we already knew. There is
Update 18/08/2025: Creative Loafing Tampa has readmitted Bob Whitmore as staff cartoonist today after hundreds of readers flooded the mailboxes of corporate and local editors with complaints about the decision to fire him last week for a cartoon that two readers denounced as "anti-Semitic". More of the same, another case to add to
