That Scott Adams (1967), cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Dilbert is a loudmouth, among other things, is no secret. Moreover, he has been receiving an inordinate amount of attention from a large part of the press for some time now. There is no
A cartoon in a comic strip by Pascal Garnier has been in the news in France these days and has provoked a big controversy, the images accompanying the cartoon were published in the French far-right magazine "Valeurs Actuelle" to a text published in the extreme
Johnny Whitefield, editor of The Courier-Times newspaper based in Roxboro, North Carolina, yesterday announced his immediate resignation following the publication of this syndicated cartoon by Tom Stiglich that was criticised as racist. The scene shows a hooded black man stealing a white woman's purse. She
Cartoon that prompted The Journal's apology The newspaper The Journal of Seneca, South Carolina, published on Wednesday 10 June this cartoon by the cartoonist Al Goodwyn, who declares himself conservative. Some readers sent their complaints to the newspaper or posted them on social media pointing
Cartoon by Mark Night (1962) about Serena Williams The joke was published on Sunday 10 September 2018 in the tabloid Herald Sun (Australia), the newspaper he has worked for for almost three decades. A new case that follows all the patterns. A cartoonist makes a
Australia's indigenous community protests a cartoon it considers racist. This is the scene: Police: you must sit down and talk to your son about personal responsibility Father: yes, very good What's his name then? On Thursday 4 August this cartoon by Bill Leak (1956) -(Bio)
Imagine drawing a cartoon about a corruption case of bestial proportions involving judges, police, politicians, journalists and many strata of society and the government of your country and you end up being accused of intrusion into the intimate life of the prosecutor, of"graphic violence", of
Tension in the region. Cartoon of 13/01/2023 in CTXT TR: When they woke up, what they called "tension in the region" was only two streets away. The year came in strong and continued to be intense. While the killing continues apace in Ukraine, the US-backed
TR: "How dare Israel attack civilians..." Michael Ramirez cartoon published on 8 November. There is another war going on in editorial cartoons, one that provokes clashes to dominate what they call the "story" and in which many battles are fought, even if we only know
Cartoon by Dana Summers, Tribune Content Agency. I read this story on the blog of fellow Canadian Guy Badeaux, "Bado", in a post entitled"A cartoonist falls for a hoax", and it is yet another example of how fake news can become so pervasive that it
The information cycle. Cartoon of 18/02/2023 in CTXT I open Tonter in the morning and find the staff talking about UFOs. I don't get where the pod is coming from. I suppose that in a while a guy who bends spoons with his mind and
"Facebook has deleted today's Herschel/Kanye cartoon for "violating" their community standards. My account has been blocked for three days for being a bad boy and not following the rules" The cartoon in question, syndicated in dozens of newspapers, was posted without any problems or complaints.
On 17 August, the French-language Canadian newspaper L'Acadie Nouvelle de New Brunswick, who declares himself as an "independent media since 1984", published this cartoon by Marcel Boudreau that some considered Islamophobic and racist. Boudreau's cartoon shows a caveman dragging a woman by grabbing her by
The withdrawal was prompted by complaints from some readers who considered the cartoon to be racist. Last Friday, 26 August, La Vanguardia published this strip of the classic pastime of The 8 Mistakes (La chasse aux 8 erreurs in French) by the French cartoonist Jean
As some of you already know, my "external" routine is two vignettes a week which are published on CTXT saturday and Sunday. During the week I write down the topics in bulk which I then order by supposed "importance" and do the occasional sketch. First
STILL... Racism in America is a retrospective exhibition of cartoons about racism in America that takes place at the Medialia Gallery in New York origin at the Medialia gallery in New York, where it was mounted in February 2020. The installation is curated by The
Last week, seven newspapers owned by Metroland Media, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation, in Simcoe County (Canada) published this cartoon by Steve Nease. The scene shows the pope saying"I'm sorry" to two indigenous-looking people who reply:"How (or how much) sorry?"where the S is replaced by
Freedom according to the antivaccinationists. Cartoon of 08/01/2022 in CTXT. These were two of last week's top stories, one provoked several discussions and the other a lot of laughter, although to be fair both provoked hundreds of jokes. The move by Novak Djokovic, who ya
The newspaper La Tribuna de Albacete and its cartoonist, Javi Salado apologised yesterday for this cartoon published on Sunday 28 November. They did it through a "note from the editorial staff" in these terms: "In relation to Javi Salado's cartoon published last Sunday in the
This is the question that the cartoonist asks himself Nick Newman and which he uses as an alibi to give a more in-depth opinion on the issue of the representation of diversity in cartoons in an article in The Spetctator. According to Newman, "Of the
