The Ministry of Culture abolishes the National Bullfighting Award

The Ministry of Culture abolishes the National Bullfighting Award

Bullfighting and torture. Cartoon of 05/05/2024 in CTXT Translation of the cartoon: The Ministry of Culture abolishes the National Bullfighting Prize. "Well, torture will not be rewarded, but neither will it be punished". Culture abolished the National Bullfighting Award, this prize for torture will no longer be awarded or convened for its 2024

Armament escalation

Escalada armamentística

Arms escalation, cartoon of 28/01/2022 in CTXT The Doomsday Clock, also called the Apocalypse Clock, has moved its hands by 10 seconds. This symbolic clock, created by The Bulletin's Board of Science and Security Atomic Scientists, has reset its minute hand twenty-five times since 1947. It is a design that warns the public

It should not happen

It should not happen

It shouldn't happen. Cartoon of 04/12/2022 in CTXT I'm hooked on the Joakim case, also known as the "Titi Muñoz" case, after the nickname given to the mayoress of Marbella and senator for the Partido Popular, Ángeles Muñoz Uriol, and I don't know the origin of the case, although, honestly, I don't give

Marlaska, border management

Marlaska, border management

Marlaska, border management. Cartoon of 12/11/2022 in CTXT "I'm calm, I'm not thinking of resigning", said Marlaska after the evidence shown by the BBC's Africa Eye programme. The BBC's investigative report shows that Spanish police saw, and did not prevent, dozens of migrants dying on the border with Morocco during the incidents of

Special Prize

Special Prize

Special prize. Cartoon of 03/07/2022 in CTXT This is yet another stale practice of certain media outlets that has been around for a long time. They organise awards with bombastic names, choose a politician/governor and give him or her an award consisting of a hideous statuette or a diploma at a sarao designed

The secrets of PP

The secrets of PP

"A media has caught us"."We will denounce you for revealing secrets to voices". The secrets of PP. Cartoon of 05/12/2021 in CTXT The secretary general of the PP, Teodoro García Egea, and the president of the Region of Murcia (Spain), Fernando López Miras, denounced to infoLibre for the publication of this information in

Spain is different! Pandemic holidays

Spain is different! Pandemic holidays

Spain is different! Cartoon of 21/03/2021 in CTXT Staying informed has never been a more difficult task and it doesn't look like it's going to change for the better. The bombardment only pauses to drag us into the daily irrelevance that marks every move of the TV show, grabbing all the attention only

Humour in troubles, a collection of cases (III)

Humor en apuros

194 cases Third part of this compilation that I started in 2014. It is a list with summaries of cases grouped by different periods. It has been chopped up because, even when summarising a lot, they were too long and became uncomfortable to read and also made it difficult to load the page.

Box B

Caja B sentencia

Box B. Cartoon of 17/11/2024 in CTXT "The justice system confirmed that the entire party structure was affected by 'corruptelosis'". The Supreme Court confirmed the conviction of the PP as civilly liable for the payment in black for the works of its headquarters in Calle Génova 13, this ratification is the third firm

The lighthouse of Spain

The lighthouse of Spain

The lighthouse of Spain. Cartoon of 09/01/2022 in CTXT. This phrase from Alfonso Mañueco, president of Castilla y León and PP candidate in the upcoming regional elections on 13 February ended up on the front page of Sunday's El Mundo. I can think of no better image and description than this to illustrate

Family tree

Family tree

Family tree Translation: "I will not talk about corruption in my party" Cartoon of 05/06/2021 in CTXT On 16 February 2021, at the National Executive meeting of the National Executive Committee of the party, Pablo Casado announced that the PP would change its location, said that they would sell the genoa 13 headquarters

Panama's former president Ricardo Martinelli sues cartoonist Hilde Sucre

El expresidente de Panamá, Ricardo Martinelli, demanda al viñetista Hilde Sucre

Former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli sues cartoonist Hilde Sucre over this cartoon The former president of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, is suing the cartoonist Hilde Sucre(FB) and the media My Newspaper for this cartoon published on 17 April 2019. Martinelli is seeking 100,000 dollars in damages for an alleged offence against his honour. I

Osmani Simanca fired from Brazilian newspaper "A Tarde" for criticising the government

Osmani Simancas

Cartoon by Osmani Simanca (01/08/2017) In June 2017, cartoonist Osmani Simanca was fired from the Brazilian newspaper A Tarde The Cuban-born and naturalised Brazilian cartoonist had been working for the newspaper, the oldest in the state of Bahia and one of the oldest in Brazil, for more than 15 years. It has been

Skip Williamson, an annoying pimple on the culture's ass

Skip Williamson, an annoying pimple on the culture's ass

Skip Williamson, self portrait. (1983) In March 2017, two cartoonists, friends and prominent figures of the American underground comic industry died. On March 5, Jay Patrick Lynch (1945) died and shortly after, on the night of Thursday, March 16, Mervyn "Skip" Williamson (1944), considered one of the architects of the alternative comic movement,

Humour in trouble, a collection of cases (I) from 1978 to 2016

Humour in trouble, a collection of cases (I) from 1978 to 2016

Cartoonists who have had problems of some importance because of their cartoons or satirical illustrations. Also cases of other people who, without being cartoonists, have had problems for sharing them.