World Press Cartoon Oeiras 2025

 

The 18th edition of World Press Cartoon will take place in the autumn of 2025, once again in Portugal, now back in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, in the municipality of Oeiras.

The show continues to feature an attractive structure of 10 prizes, including a Grand Prix worth 10,000 Euros. 

We maintain the levels of rigour and quality that have made us the reference salon for graphic humour in the Press.

Paper Prints Danziger Cartoon, Publisher Apologizes, Fires Editor

The owners of The Palm Beach Post fired editorial page editor Tony Doris last month after the paper published the above Jeff Danziger cartoon and later condemned it as antisemitic.

The full story here.

‘Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse’ Review

Alan Gardner in The Daily Cartoonist.

The documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse premieres at Film Forum in New York City last week. 

Given the current political climate in the United States and abroad, the film serves not only as an educational 90-minute exploration of one of the most influential comic creators of the 20th century but also as a reminder that the themes running through Art’s life—fascism, illiberalism, and extremism—are not relics of the past but present threats to democracies worldwide.

25th World Press Freedom Canada International Editorial Cartoon Competition

The theme of the 25th International Editorial Cartoon Competition is:

It’s a Trump World 

At Trump’s first inauguration, it was easy to dismiss « alternative facts » about the size of those in attendance.
Now with American big tech bosses bowing at his feet, « alternative facts » may become the only ones we know as Facebook eliminates fact-checking in the name of free expression and Twitter reinstates Trump’s account, making it increasingly difficult to discern the truth.
Media outlets refuse to endorse opposition candidates by invoking political neutrality and live under the threat of expensive lawsuits.
There may have been adults in the room during Trump's first mandate but his current circle appears to be catering to his every whim.

“Rea Irvin: An Appreciation" by Seth

From Drawn & Quarterly.

Seth (Clyde Fans) offers an homage to Rea Irvin, The New Yorker's first art editor and the man who invented Eustace Tilley.

The New Yorker 100th Anniversary

 

The New Yorker celebrates its centenary this month.

 It’s been one hundred years since our founding editor, Harold Ross, and his wife, Jane Grant, dreamed up what they called a “comic paper” over poker games and liquid lunches at the Algonquin Hotel and other midtown haunts. 

The 100th Anniversary Issue is available in full today exclusively to our subscribers. 

AAEC 2025 Convention

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is pleased to announce that it will be teaming up with the Small Press Expo, in September for its' 2025 convention.