When cartoons are based on fake news

When cartoons are based on fake news

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

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (2021)

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (2021)

The mangaka, animation filmmaker and cult director Satoshi Kon died suddenly of cancer on 24 August 2010 at the age of 46. He left behind a short and unfinished body of work that is nonetheless among the most widespread and influential in the history of

Eurovision

Eurovisión

Eurovision. Cartoon of 14/05/2023 in CTXT Last Saturday was held that annual musical attack called Eurovision and it already seems like something that happened a thousand years ago. The festival is an eternal coma patient, nobody wants to switch it off because its testament is

“Bluff”, the death of a cartoonist

"Bluff", the death of a cartoonist

Yesterday a new book about Carlos Gómez Carrera, “Bluff”, was presented at the Valencia City Hall. (1903-1940), one of the most important cartoonists of the Spanish Republican period who was shot by Franco’s regime in the Modelo prison in Valencia at the end of the

Manifesto calling for regulation of AI imagers

Manifesto calling for regulation of AI imagers

SEGAP (CGT’s Barcelona Union of Shows, Graphic Arts, Audiovisuals and Paper), together with ARTEesÉTICA, has presented a manifesto to demand the regulation of image-generating AIs in Spanish-speaking countries and has started collecting signatures. As the union recalls, the founder of Midjourney, David Holz, assured Forbes