Anti-vaccine cartoonist Ben Garrison says he has COVID-19 and won't go to hospital

Anti-vaccine cartoonist Ben Garrison says he has COVID-19 and won't go to hospital

Ben Garrison. Photo Rogue Cartoonist blog It's not the first bullshit this character has spouted. Still, his story, or cartoon, deserves a mention just in case. Ben Garrison (1957), well known Montana cartoonist and enthusiast of that right-wing that in the USA they call the

Racism accusations for a cartoon published in the New York Daily News

Racism accusations for a cartoon published in the New York Daily News

"The tourists are back!" Criticism for racism, again Cartoon by Bill Bramhall published on Tuesday 25 May (see with VPN) in the New York Daily News. Yet another case of accusations of racism. Bramhall, editorial cartoonist for the Daily News, has been criticised for this

Censorship and comics

Censorship and comics

Lucky Luke "lost" his cigar Censorship and comics It is not only journalists who are sometimes hindered or threatened when trying to do their job. Cartoonists and comic artists have also always been on the front line when it comes to exercising freedom of expression.

The cartoon that provoked 1000 complaints

The cartoon that provoked 1000 complaints

Cartoon of the series Six Chix of Bianca Xunise of Tuesday 28 July 2020 served by the agency King Features Syndicate for different media. The unmasked white woman says to the masked black woman wearing the T-shirt with the slogan "I can't breathe": "If you

Morning News to stop publishing cartoons after controversy over abortion and blacks

Morning News to stop publishing cartoons after controversy over abortion and blacks

A cartoon on abortion and blacks that has led to the disappearance of the cartoons in the newspaper. Another case for the sack. On Thursday 11 June, the Florence, South Carolina Morning News of Florence, South Carolina, published in its paper edition this syndicated cartoon

Land of opportunity

Land of opportunity

Land of opportunity Cartoon of 31/05/2020 in CTXT 8 minutes and 46 secondsis the time George Floyd spent with Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's knee crushing his neck. Of that time, the last 2 minutes and 53 seconds he was already unconscious, but Chauvin's knee

Feels Good Man (2020)

Feels Good Man (2020)

One frame from the video "Meet the artist: Arthur Jones" sobre el documental "Feels Good Man" "Feels Good Man" is the title of Arthur Jones's work that is in competition in the Sundance in the American documentary category. I don't expect much from this documentary

Humour in troubles, a collection of cases (III)

Humour in troubles, a collection of cases (III)

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

Elko Daily apologises for Trump joke

Elko Daily apologises for Trump joke

The"Elko Daily Free Press" newspaper in Nevada published this cartoon from Jeff Stahler on 30 October. In the picture you can see three children. They are dressed up in Halloween costumes and visit a house for traditional trick-or-treating. Among them, one of them is dressed

Johannes Leak "inherits" his father's job at The Australian newspaper

Johannes Leak "inherits" his father's job at The Australian newspaper

Johannes Leak will publish daily in The Australian "inheriting" the position left by his father, Bill Leak, following his death in 2017 at the age of 61. The newspaper announced (Text on paywall) in early November published this cartoon in which Bill Leaks hands his

Alex Jones to pay $15,000 to Matt Furie for the unauthorised use of Pepe the Frog

Alex Jones to pay $15,000 to Matt Furie for the unauthorised use of Pepe the Frog

Poster that prompted Matt Furie's lawsuit against Alex Jones and Infowars Alex Jones, owner of Infowars, has agreed to a settlement with Matt Furie in which he will pay the creator of Pepe the Frog $15,000, resolving a lawsuit the cartoonist filed against Jones for

Pepe's war

Pepe's war

Pepe the Frog has won a few more battles in his all-out war against the Alt-Right. After staging death of Pepe the Frog in May 2017 and his resurrection in June of the same year, Matt Furie(Tumblr - Web) set out to prove that his

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette rejects 19 cartoons by Rob Rogers, fires him

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette rejects 19 cartoons by Rob Rogers, fires him

"Immigrant children". Rob Rogers, 1 June 2018 When the medium a cartoonist works for for 25 years doesn't publish the cartoon of the day, it can be considered an anecdote or a mistake. Or they're pointing the door at you. I don't know a cartoonist

Newspaper apologises for cartoon portraying dreamers as criminals

Newspaper apologises for cartoon portraying dreamers as criminals

Cartoon by Sean Delonas, syndicated in CagleCartoons, published in the Albuquerque Journal on 7/02/17 The New Mexico Albuquerque Journal new Mexico paper has apologised for a cartoon by Sean Delonas (New Jersey, 1962) that was published on Wednesday 7 February and which angered both Democrats

Trump, shit in the hole

Trump, shit in the hole

Trump, shit in the hole. Cartoon of 14/01/2018 in CTXT It's not clear where Trump's ass starts and his mouth ends or vice versa. The roll is that Donald was at a meeting where they were discussing protection for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and

Humour in trouble, a collection of cases (II)

Humour in trouble, a collection of cases (II)

The two previous instalments can be consulted here. Humour in trouble (I). Cases from 1978 to 2016 Humour in trouble (III). Cases from 2020 onwards I had to cut it up because it was getting too long and the post was starting to have problems

The war between India and the US, in cartoons

The war between India and the US, in cartoons

Heng im cartoon in NYT (06/12/2015) In December 2015, coinciding with the UN Climate Summit in Paris, The New York Times published this cartoon by Heng Kim Song (Singapore, 1964) depicting India as an elephant sitting on the tracks impeding the progress of the climate