Historically linked to the written press as social or political criticism, the graphic humour of one or several cartoons, even full pages, could be defined as that graphic work with a humorous or satirical intention. Although it has also been used, and is used, for other purposes, whether didactic, informative or as mere press illustrations.
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On 13 January 2026, a Swiss couple living in Canton Valais filed a criminal complaint against the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and one of its cartoonists for a cartoon by Éric Salch about the fire at the Crans-Montana ski resort on New Year's Eve that left 41 dead and 116 injured. The cartoon
On 8 October, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in Barcelona (Spain), inaugurated the exhibition"Ink against Hitler" with the cartoons and illustrations of Mario Armengol, which had already been mounted at the Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y de la Modernidad (MuVIM) in 2024. Now, the exhibition Ink against Hitler is the presentation
This is reported in Cartooning for Peace. If the plaintiff does not appeal the judgement, it would put an end to a court case that began in 2023, when Krešimir Antolić, former coach of the GNK Dinamo football club, filed a defamation suit against cartoonist Nikole Plečka, who signs his name as Nik
If just a week ago I left a story with a happy ending related to the Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder, now it's a different story with a very different outcome because he has been fired. The cartoonist told it this way in his X account: "I just got let go from the
A cartoon published on 19 September in The Chronicle Herald newspaper and on the Saltwire website that poked fun at the large number of people running for mayor of Halifax caused a stir in Canada. The joke uses the image of a monkey to represent a candidate. Michael de Adder's cartoon, entitled"We're going
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