Police union calls for removal of cartoon from human rights exhibition

Police union calls for removal of cartoon from human rights exhibition

Cartoon by Brazilian Elihu Duayer (2018). In the scene, three riot police officers laugh out loud reading a book on human rights. More of the same thing, another case of a police union that takes mal with free expression and seeks to to prevent it.

Cartoonist arrested for satirizing Algerian politicians and military

Cartoonist arrested for satirizing Algerian politicians and military

"Until the end". Politicians and military represented by Nime as "the band of the Titanic" that keeps on playing, oblivious to the repression in Algeria. The painter, sculptor and cartoonist, Benabdelhamid Aminebetter known as "Nime", was arrested on Tuesday 26 November by plainclothes Algerian police

Gahan Wilson dies

Gahan Wilson dies

Gahan Wilson dies. Image: still from the 2013 documentary "Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird" The cartoonist died on 21 November at the age of 89 in Scottsdale, Arizona from complications arising from his advanced state of dementia. "The world has lost a legend. One

The family of the cartoonist Máximo donates 12,000 cartoons to the National Library

The family of the cartoonist Máximo donates 12,000 cartoons to the National Library

Máximo's table with documents, drawings and some personal objects. Photo: BNE The family of the writer and cartoonist Máximo San Juan has donated his personal archive to the Biblioteca Nacional de España. The first part of the donation consists of more than 12,000 drawings, those

Brazilian court row over a kiss in a comic book

Brazilian court row over a kiss in a comic book

Brazil court row over kissing in a comic book Cover of Folha de S.Paulo of Saturday 7 September 2019. How could a cartoon from a superhero comic book end up on the front page of one of Brazil's most widely circulated newspapers? The mess revolves