Turkey, actor sentenced to 11 months in prison for sharing cartoon about Erdogan

Latuff

Latuff cartoon shared on the internet by Aydin, a "proof" for the prosecution. Turkish actor and columnist Orhan Aydin was sentenced to 11 months and 20 days in prison for insulting Turkish Presidentturkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for, among other things, sharing this 2015 cartoon by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff on the internet. ... Leer más

Arifur Rahman exhibition raided in Norway

Arifur Rahman

Arifur Rahman in a March 2016 photo On 1 March 2017, a man violently broke into the exhibition of cartoonist Arifur Rahman "Arif". He unhung and took away four of the twenty-five works on display, as reported by Human Rights Service on 24 March. The exhibition was related to newly arrived asylum seekers ... Leer más

A year of graphic humour, Humoristan Report 2016

A year of graphic humour, Humoristan Report 2016

Humoristán, a project of the Gin Foundation, presented "Un año de humor gráfico, informe Humoristán 2016" at the 35th International Comic Fair of Barcelona and is now available for download download and reading. It is a 46-page balance with a review of what happened during 2016 in relation to graphic humour and comic ... Leer más

Israeli soldiers raid the studio of Palestinian cartoonist Osama Nazzal

Osama Nazzal

Osama Nazzal in his study disturbed by Israeli soldiers The regional representative of CRNI in Palestine, Mohammed Saba'aneh reports an Israeli military attack on the home of a fellow cartoonist Osama Nazzal. Saba'aneh says he received a call from Nazzal after soldiers raided his home, ransacked his studio and confiscated some of his ... Leer más

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, ... Leer más

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