More on Patrick Lamontagne World Press Freedom award, Nazi Germany’s pressure on cartoonists, and an argument that comics are NOT for Kids. Patrick LaMontagne Receives International Award A week and a half ago we reported on the World Press Freedom International Editorial Cartoon Award winners. As a followup here is The Calgary Herald noting that […]

The Lakes International Comic Arts Festival is taking fire from British politicians for inviting Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj to be one of 13 guest cartoonists for their 2026 event in October. Critics, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are demanding public funding be withdrawn and the cartoonist be disinvited. At issue are two of Emad’s cartoons […]

Today is Victory Day in Russia, though yesterday was VE Day elsewhere in the world. Russia marks the day the papers were signed, rather than the day the war ended. And today, as mentioned before, they’re marking the day with a parade that, Adams notes, doesn’t feature the usual display of weaponry, because their tanks […]

A thrill for any syndicated cartoonist is to see their handiwork in print in the newspaper delivered to their front door (or mailbox as the case may be.) So it is with Joe Wos and his MazeToons. Alexis Papalia at The Tribune-Review informs the paper’s readers: Those in the habit of heading to the comics […]