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SPACEMAN DELUXE EDITION (HARDCOVER)
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(W) Brian Azzarello (A) Eduardo Risso (CA) Dave Johnson
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YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK Hardcover DRAWN & QUARTERLY (W/A/CA) Tom Gauld A new collection from The Guardian and New York Times Magazine cartoonist | |
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On Friday, May 24, come celebrate the creativity
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The archives have been opened, and the CBLDF has found a vast and mixed array of shirts from the past 25 years! This offer is limited... 4 random shirts , in different sizes and s... | |
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Some creators cannot be pigeonholed, with each new work being completely
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In 2007, Arifur Rahman published a cartoon featuring a character called Mohammad Cat. The cartoon was published during the Islamic holy day of Ramadan, and its publication led to protests across Bangladesh. Rahman was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in prison for “harming religious sentiments.” Olivia Stransky with Sampsonia Way recently interviewed Rahman about…
This week, David Reed with the Missouri NPR affiliate KBIA 91.3 examined editorial cartoons and freedom of expression abroad during his Global Journalist radio show. Among the topics of discussion were Ali Ferzat and Aseem Trivedi, two editorial cartoonists who have been persecuted in their home countries. Ferzat, from Syria, was beaten and his hands…
In April, Singapore cartoonist Leslie Chew was arrested by authorities for alleged racial insensitivity and sedition. Chew shares his comic, Demon-cratic Singopore, on Facebook, and his arrest was the result of a complaint filed by a private citizen who took issue with the content of some of Chew’s cartoons. Chun Han Wong writes for The…
Last year, Tunisian citizens Jabeur Mejri and Ghazi Beji were sentenced in their home country to 7.5 years prison for blasphemy. The two were convicted of insulting the Prophet Muhammad after they shared cartoons depicting Muhammad and criticizing Islam on their Facebook pages. Last week, Tunisian courts were supposed to hear an appeal in the…
Anime News Network reports that publication of the adult manga magazine Comic Megastore has been indefinitely suspended due to a police investigation for obscenity. The magazine was clearly marked 18+, but apparently still ran afoul of Article 175 of the Japanese Penal Code, which forbids the distribution, sale, or public display of “an obscene document,…
Ronald Clark, a man from Auckland, New Zealand, has been sentenced to three months jail and may be further sentenced to 10 years of supervision and penalties. His crime: watching Japanese anime featuring pixies, elves, trolls, and other fantasy characters engaged in sexual acts. In New Zealand, drawn depictions of underage characters engaged in sexual…
Despite legislation protecting free expression, an Egyptian satirist and Tunisian rapper find themselves caught in a wave of rising post-Arab Spring censorship. Political cartoons have been an ongoing target, and now Bassem Youssef and Weld El 15 have both been forced to appear in court to defend themselves against anti-government charges. According to DW.de, “the…
When an artist is censored by a government agency or political group, the immediate focus is on the individual case: Who is being censored, who is doing the censoring, and what are the reasons for the censorship? An unseen consequence of any act of censorship, however, is the resulting acts of self-censorship by other artists,…
What do editorial cartoons do? Are they really the mind-changing propaganda that censors fear? Or do they simply mirror the ideas, events, and trends already taking place? Cartoon Movement recently published a translated interview with Ilan Danjoux, author of Political Cartoons and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, addressing these questions and more. Cartoon Movement asked Danjoux about…
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is proud to release Defending Manga: The Ryan Matheson Story, a short documentary video recounting the young American citzen’s fight for justice after being wrongfully accused of criminal activity because of fantasy and humor manga on his laptop computer. This week the CBLDF has also contributed an additional $10,000…