The Indian government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has blocked at least two Instagram accounts belonging to two cartoonists under a regulation designed to “protect the public from threats to national security, public order or criminal activities”. Alan Gardner reports on this in *The Daily Cartoonist* The two cartoonists,Satish AcharyaandManjul, had published ... Read more
"Welcome to Queensland - the 'state of censorship' - where a simple sentence can get you up to two years in jail". This was the statement made by illustrator James Hillier, known as Nordacious, after police ordered him to remove some of his political cartoons because they now break the law after the ... Read more
Translation of the cartoon: "Attention, just censored" The year now gone has been a particularly difficult one for graphic humour globally, with cases ranging from editorial censorship and dismissals in traditional media to arrests and prosecutions on religious or political grounds. Although the themes motivating the conflicts remain much the same as in ... Read more
If you liked the headline"An exhibition entitled "Licence to offend" is cancelled in case someone might be offended" you will enjoy even more this one:"Exhibition of censored works censored". The parish of Escaldes-Engordany, the second most populated after Andorra la Vieja in the Principality of Andorra, was the first stop of the travelling ... Read more
I think I've already written about almost every possible cartoon-induced move, but this one is curious and noteworthy because the situation seems like an easy joke. It is common for those who organise or host exhibitions of cartoons to try to "moderate" or filter what is exhibited in order to be on the ... Read more
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