The 1898 Spanish-American War in cartoons

The 1898 Spanish-American War in cartoons

Spanish-American War in cartoons *Spanish version oh this article.  Spanish cartoons (La Correspondencia, Black and White, D.Quixote, Spanish Cuba) and Americans (The World NY, Herald) confronted in an "infographic" of the time. Source: The San Francisco Call, May 15, 1898, Page 18. The Spanish-American War (25 April to 12 August 1898), also known

American Catastrophe, censorship at school

Liam Shea

"American Catastrophe" by Liam Shea, pencil, pastel and digital. Photo: Kelly Zeiss Shea In early June Morristown High School mounted its art and design exhibition of student work, the theme of this year's art class was "America Takes a selfie". Liam Shea's five-foot-tall drawing was withdrawn and the student was informed that it

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 change talks train. Indian cartoonists, and those from

Cartoonist Jayme Gordon sentenced to two years in jail for attempting to defraud DreamWorks

Cartoonist Jayme Gordon sentenced to two years in jail for attempting to defraud DreamWorks

Cartoonist Jayme Gordon sentenced to two years in prison for attempting to defraud DreamWorks Left: Disney illustration from 1996, right: drawings registered by Gordon in 2000 On 3 May, Jayme Gordon was convicted in federal court in Boston of wire fraud and perjury. He was accused of orchestrating a scheme, based on false

Skip Williamson, an annoying pimple on the culture's ass

Skip Williamson, an annoying pimple on the culture's ass

Skip Williamson, self portrait. (1983) In March 2017, two cartoonists, friends and prominent figures of the American underground comic industry died. On March 5, Jay Patrick Lynch (1945) died and shortly after, on the night of Thursday, March 16, Mervyn "Skip" Williamson (1944), considered one of the architects of the alternative comic movement,