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MEDIEVAL COMICS? Something to look forward to…
Mark you calendars this time 2025! The @NewberryLibrary will be hosting Cartooning the Medieval: This symposium will bring together medievalists & cartoonists to explore comics as a means to create interest outside academia in engaging with medieval culture.
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Cartooning the Medieval
A symposium exploring the potential of comics and narrative art to create new opportunities for engaging with medieval culture.
www.newberry.orgTHE ANIMATION GUILD uses its best tool against greedy studios… ANIMATION! Watch…
Jellybox is making some informative shorts for TAG's upcoming negotiations!
The Animation Guild’s (TAG) Master Agreement expires on August 16th — and we need YOUR help!
Spread the word about what’s at stake for animation!!! Follow, repost, and #StayTooned for more!
Animation is under attack!
Can you name all the cameos??👀The Animation Guild’s (TAG) Master Agreement expires on August 16th — and we need YOUR help! Spread the word about what’s at s...
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LOVE LIBRARIES? Here’s a great comic on how you can help yours. Please consider a small
(or large) donation to Brandi at @brandirecognition.bsky.social who made this little gem!
having fun isn't hard...all you need to do is support your local library! don't be intimidated—here are some simple steps that you can take! (1/2)
#libcomix
A WIN for #FreedomOfExpression in Canada…
Labour unions legally intervening on behalf of anti-genocide protesting students at the University of Toronto.
It’s not just beautiful, it’s the kind of solidarity that offers the only hope for this world.
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LAND of the… FREEZE!
📥 Arrests of journalists in the U.S. in 2024 already doubled over last year
Read more in the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (and subscribe): pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/arrests...
Arrests of journalists already doubled over last year
As of this month, more journalists have now been arrested in 2024 than the last two years combined. Plus, four years after George Floyd’s death — and what it meant for media covering BLM.
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Tunisia slips further down the ranks of nations honoring a #FreeMedia and respect for the rights to #FreedomOfExpression.
#MediaFreedom #PressFreedom
#FreedomOfThePress #Tunisia #FreePress
Tunisia: Authorities Escalate Clampdown on Media, Freedom of Expression
Tunisian authorities have ramped up their crackdown on media and freedom of expression in recent weeks, sentencing two journalists and a media founder to prison sentences, detaining another media figu...
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THE ART of seeing art…
#ArtAppreciation #Art
Check out this wonderful selection of Guilty Verdict Trumptoons over at the @washingtonpost.com, compiled by #MichaelCavna…
#EditorialCartoons #Trumptoons
What political cartoonists thought of Trump’s guilty verdict
Cartoonists across the political spectrum made light of a historic conviction.
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WHAT IS an #EditorialCartoonist? @knecessary.bsky.social spells it out for those who don’t know.
#EditorialCartoonists #Cartoonist
#Cartooning #PoliticalCartooning
#HowToCartoon
Self portrait by Canadian ‘toonist #DavidBrouitt, challenging the notion that no man is an island.
#Cartoonist #Cartoonists
MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED questions, requests and comments faced by caricaturists - compiled by #JaredPhillips - @jaredphillips.bsky.social.
#Caricatures #Caricature
Cartoonist Shaw appears to have invented an inoffensive cartoon…
#EditorialCartoons #Censorship #PoliticalCorrectness #Cartoons #CancelCulture
Africa’s greatest cartoonists contributed their portraits and caricatures of Nelson Mandela for #Africartoons’ #DrawMadibaForAfricaDay initiative on #AfricaDay over the weekend. Check out all the great names that stepped up from a good spread of African countries. #Caricatures #Africa! #Mandela
When American authorities tried to restrict editorial cartooning they were thwarted in their plans by the cartoonists themselves! Now Cartoonists Rights exists to prevent it from happening again.
Join the ranks of Cartoonist Defenders here: eepurl.com/itCRA6 (it’s quick, easy and free!)
Why did politicians try to ban some cartoons?
In 1903, cartoonists kept depicting Pennsylvania politician Samuel Pennypacker as a parrot. The solution? Introduce a bill banning any cartoon in which a per...
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APPealing: Imagine an app that protects its users from itself!
#Cloverly of #Speedbumps does just that in this #gagcartoon!
#Innovation #Apps #Tech #Applications #Technology
MEANWHILE, over at #CagleCartoons editorial cartoonist #BobEnglehart muses over what to draw.
#EditorialCartoons #censorship #oversensitivity #cancelculture #Cartoonists #howtocartoon #cartoonideas #ideas #think!
#PoliticalCartoons #Concepts
CARTOONS ON THE BRIDGE: meet these cartoonists on JUNE 28th, 29th, 30th, at PONT-EN-ROYANS, ISERE.
RIP #EdHall, editorial cartoonist, painter, artist and so much more - lost to cancer on Sunday. This touching obituary cartoon by #DebMilbrath expresses the loss felt by so many fellow cartoonists. #EditirialCartoonists
DEMOCRACY, as observed by #FernandoPica. #Democracy #Supression #Politics #FreeExpression #Electioneering #FreedomOfExpression
Concerns over diminishing #freedomofexpression rights in India, where cartoonists have been subjected to a changing mood of intolerance…
India’s free press is not so free after a decade of Modi | CNN
India is one of the world’s largest media markets. Yet despite its size and diversity, critics say the press is growing increasingly subservient to Modi’s government.
www.cnn.comALL YOU EVER wanted to know about balloon tails, but we’re afraid to ask. #HowToCartoon
Can we talk about your tails? Here are just 4 suggestions that are standard practice in professional comic book lettering. #comicbook #lettering #blambot
We just love this one by @joannestarer.bsky.social
I have a story in Harley Quinn #42. It's about book bans. And it is beautiful.
Art by Marcial Toledano.
Under an increasing number of authoritarian regimes worldwide cartoonists face criminal charges - or worse. Become a Cartoonist Defender to help our fight for #CartoonistsRights - and please share this post. Sign up here: eepurl.com/itCRA6
A fascinating scientific deconstruction of comic / cartoon strips: Understanding Peanuts and Schulzian Symmetry.
Read: culturalanalytics.org/article/8756...
Apparently #FreeSpeech is only for those who can afford it, as suggested in this cartoon by @barrydeutsch.bsky.social for #LeftyCartoons.
#FreedomOfExpression #SocialJusticeComics
A HISTORY of the culture wars by #DanPiraro of #BizarroComics…
#SocialJusticeCartoons #CultureWars #Intollerance
AN UPDATE on jailed Iranian cartoonist Athena Farghdani has just been posted by her lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi - @moghimi.lawyer
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eepurl.com‘Toonist Tom Gauld Occupies Strasbourg Uni - This looks like something to see!
Students and staff at the University of Strasbourg are enjoying the weird worlds of The Guardian and New Scientist cartoonist Tom Gauld this summer: downthetubes.net/guardian-car...
Guardian cartoonist Tom Gauld takes over the University of Strasbourg (not literally)
Anguished authors, forgotten books and whispering robots stalk ten libraries this summer
downthetubes.netVia Twitter/X, lawyer Mohammad Moghimi states that after a month in jail Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani today refused to attend Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, as she considers the proceedings neither legal nor adherent to the principles of a fair trial. Extraordinary, undaunted courage.
We just love this homage by #RobertWaldoBrunelleJr to his favorite cartoonists - drawn in each cartoonist’s style! How many of them do you know?
More #fairtrade cartoons from the #ZeroChildLabor campaign: @cartoons4change calls out #Fairtrade for its unfair practices with cartoons by: @Ronmaccartoons, Alf, @rodriguezmonos, @chavodeltoro, @argoncaricatura and @mwcartoons. Create and share with those hashtags to join the campaign!
Today is #fairtrade day, and in their #ZeroChildLabor campaign, @cartoons4change calls out #Fairtrade for its unfair practices with cartoons by: @Ronmaccartoons, Alf, @rodriguezmonos, @chavodeltoro, @argoncaricatura and @mwcartoons. Create and share with those hashtags to join the campaign!
A cartoon by Nathz, a French painter, landscaper, and new addition to #CartoonMovement’s stable of great cartoonists.
#editorialcartoons #cartoon #politicalcartoons #cartoons #freedomofspeech #satire #cartoonmovement #cartoonist
VE DAY: How it was recorded by cartoonists Zec and Low.
#VEday #WorldWar2 #WWII
VE DAY: How it was recorded by cartoonists Zelenskyy and Low.
#VEday #WorldWar2 #WWII
TODAY IS #donateadayswagestocharityday
If you earn money from cartoons - or even if you just appreciate them - please consider making a donation to cartoonistsrights.org/donate to help us defend cartoonists under threat around the world. And kindly share this post. Thank you.
#charity #donate
#HOWTOCARTOON #005
*Hit that hashtag for earlier tutorials; all profound, yet all under 60 seconds reading time. Cartoons are good that way.
