News and Views
Some comics-related links from the past few days: Another obit for Robert Bierman, the political cartoonist who passed away April 16. The Comic Book Bin chronicles the move from print to web by...
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Cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon Investigated by Cops, Human Rights Commish
Bruce MacKinnon, editorial cartoonist of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, is at the centre of a new controversy being investigated by police and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Tribunal. A MacKinnon cartoon...
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Serge Chapleau Wins National Newspaper Award
Cartoonist Serge Chapleau of Montreal’s La Presse has won his sixth National Newspaper Award for editorial cartooning. The awards, given annually by the Canadian Newspaper Association, were handed out...
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Tonite: Montreal Comix Jam. Details here. Political cartooning: Owen Sound Sun Times cartoonist Patrick Callaghan has joined, after a very long review period been accepted into the Association of...
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Weltschmerz, R.I.P.
Weltschmerz, Gareth Lind’s long-running weekly political comic strip, has come to an end. The final strip appeared Thursday, June 26. Citing a need to move on after almost 15 years of producing a...
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Sometime-Canuck Cartoonist at Centre of New Yorker/Obama Cover Flap
Cartoonist Barry Blitt drew this caricature of Michelle and Barack Obama as Angela Davis and Osama Bin Laden for the New Yorker, spawning all sorts of chatter for what is an essentially pale gag in the...
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Big News Links: Lynn Johnston, Steven Harper, Muhammad
Conflict of Interest Dept: As we reported in the previous post, The Wright Awards were held last Friday. I guess the big news, besides the winners of course, was a few comments by Lynn Johnston about...
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Montreal: 1001 Visages
A few new faces: the third annual 1001 Visages. Maison de la culture Frontenac, MontrealSept 4 to Oct 12 Related posts: Today: Zviane and Iris at Frontenac Library, Montreal Cartoonists Zviane and Iris...
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Arts Funding Update
Lagging behind coverage of the Canadian economy and the $22 Billion war in Afghanistan, mainstream media coverage of the arts and publishing/Canadian culture is generally a distant third. That being...
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Roy Carless, 1920-2009
Canada’s Working Class Cartoonist by Bryan Munn Cartoonist and union activist Roy Carless died Friday, January 2, 2009, in Hamilton, Ontario. The cause of death is believed to be a heart attack. An...
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Caricaturist Barry Blitt will be speaking at OCAD in Toronto. Best known for his New Yorker Obama cover, the Connecticut-based Blitt is an OCAD grad. Wednesday, Feb 412:00pm to 2:30pmOntario College of...
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Ottawa Universities Ban Cartoonist Posters
According to several news reports, The University of Ottawa and Carleton University have banned a poster created for Students Against Israeli Apartheid on the occasion of the fifth annual Israeli...
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Exhibit: Everett Soop
A new exhibit at The University of Winnipeg Gallery features the work of one of Canada’s first Aboriginal cartoonists. Everett Soop: Journalist, Cartoonist Activist runs until April 4 at Gallery 1C03...
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Cartooning For Peace
The 10th Action Week Against Racism welcomes a major international exhibit of editorial cartooning in Montreal. “Cartooning for Peace” (Dessins pour la Paix) celebrates freedom of expression and...
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Ben Wicks Cartoons Go to York U
As Sequential reported back in 2007 a collection of cartoons by the beloved Canadian cartoonist Ben Wicks were the subject of a legal dispute between the Wicks estate and the person who “found” the...
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Victoria Day
Happy May 2-4 from Sequential The cartoon, by the great George (Alice in Wonderland) Tenniel, is from an 1876 Punch and depicts British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as a sign-painter, attempting to...
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This Bright Future
Gareth Lind has announced he is reviving the characters from his well-regarded Weltschmerz comic strip, which he discontinued two years ago [edit: one year ago! oops.]. The strip was a regular in...
View ArticleDanish Cartoonist Attacked
The big news over the New Year’s weekend comes from Denmark. Kurt Westergaard, the 74-year-old cartoonist responsible for one of the cartoons of Mohammad that caused an uproar among fundamentalists a...
View ArticleNational Newspaper Awards Nominations Announced
2009 National Newspaper Awards Nominations Announced:Editorial Cartoonists CategoryBy Bryan Munn The finalists for the 61st National Newspaper Awards were announced March 15 in Toronto. There are 66...
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The C-List:: Hurry Up and Click, already!
Weekend links about comics from across the nation! Item: The Scott Pilgrim trailer is now online. Item: A preview of the comics event in Halifax on Saturday, with Kyle Baker, Kate Beaton, Rebecca...
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