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Trump's Wall

A slideshow of cartoons about Trump and his dream of building a wall. Get your own cartoon slideshow on any topic with the purchase of 4 cartoons (or more) in the Cartoon Movement Shop.

Happy New Year - in Cartoons

Our cartoonists which everyone a happy 2019! Get your own cartoon slideshow on any topic with the purchase of 4 cartoons (or more) in the Cartoon Movement Shop.

New Cartoonists

What better way to start the year than by introducing new cartoonists? Four talented cartoonists have recently joined our community, three from Iran and one from Turkey.

Mahmood Nazari - Iran

Mahmood Nazari is a cartoonist from Hamedan, a city in the west of Iran. He has won more than 100 national and international awards for his work.

 

Kürşat Zaman - Turkey

Kürşat Zaman from Antalya in Turkey is a designer and cartoonist. He has won multiple awards for his cartoons.

 

Yousef Alimohammadi - Iran

Yousef Alimohammadi from Kamyaran in Iran has been working as a cartoonist and caricaturist since 2012. He has won multiple awards for his work.

 

Salad Rafeei - Iran

Salad Rafeei hails from Ahwaz in Iran. He has been working as a cartoonist and designer since 2000, winning many international awards.

The Best Cartoons of 2018

In 2018, we received a total of 8,517 in our newsroom. 209 cartoons were published on our homepage. It has become somewhat of a tradition to make a list of our 10 favorite cartoons of the year (see the 2017 edition here, the 2016 edition here).

It's been a good year for Cartoon Movement, but then again, it's always a good year for cartoonists when bad things happen. It's what we thrive one, sadly. Some positive notes include our very first cartoon competition - The Art of Resistance - and our first partnership with the United Nations, about human rights. We also launched the Cartoon Movement Shop, making it easier for cartoons around the world to use images from our database.

But our main mission this year was, of course, to publish great cartoons. Here's our top 10:

 

1. Shithole President

These days, you can always rely on Trump to say something cartoon-worthy. In January 2018, he referred to some countries as ‘shithole countries’. Rice Araujo from Brazil drew a portrait of what many consider to be a shithole president. Published on January 12.

 

2. Absolutely Healthy

Our second cartoon in this list, by Marian Kamensky, is also about Trump. Don't worry, t he rest of our list is Trump-free. We include this one because it earned it’s maker a ban from Facebook (because it includes a swastika). We believe that cartoons sometimes should employ powerful symbols to make a point. Published January 18.

 

3. The Network

It’s ironic that the world becomes ever more connected, more and more people are lonely. Osval from Cuba has created this clever visual, where the web connecting us is made up of walls that separate us. Published April 17.

 

4. Trust in the Media

Fake news remained an issue in 2018, although this solution proposed by Gatis Sluka probably won’t work. Published May 2.

 

5. Good Migrant, Bad Migrant

In May, illegal migrant Mamoudo Gassama climbs four stories to rescue a child. As a reward, he gets French citizenship and a job. Tjeerd Royaards shows the double standard when it comes to migrants in a cartoon that went viral. This cartoon won the award for best political cartoon in the Netherlands. Published May 30.

 

6. The Finger

Nature will prevail, as this cartoon by BIZ clearly shows. Published October 5.

 

7. Self-Destruction

Brazil elects the right-wing Bolsonro. A vivid graphic by Portuguese cartoonist Vasco Gargalo shows this as an act of suicide. Pulbished October 29.

 

8. Joke

2018 proved to be a year that continued a downward trend in human rights and freedom in general, a development very aptly illustrated with this cartoon by Elihu Duayer from Brazil. Published November 2.

 

9.Standing in Line

In November, then number of refugees and migrants from Venezuela reached 3 million. One of the reasons for leaving is the economic crisis, resulting in hours of waiting at almost empty stores. A stark cartoon in grey tones by Camdelafu. Published November 29.

 

10. Brexit, No Matter What

Among all the Brexit cartoons featuring plane crashes, shipwrecks and cliffs, this is, quite simply, one of the best visual summaries of Brexit we’ve seen. By Paolo Calleri. Published December 18.

 

We hope you like our selection of this year, and we hope to see you again next year when we'll be publishing (surprise) more cartoons!

Human Rights Day

December 10 was Human Rights Day, a day we celebrated with cartoon exhibitions in The Hague and São Paulo. This year marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Earlier this year, we organized a cartoon contest together with the United Nations Human Rights Office.

Out of over 500 submissions from around the globe, 30 cartoons were selected; one for each of the articles of the UDHR. These cartoons were on display at the Peace Palace (which was turned blue for Human Rights Day) in The Hague and at the Public Defender's Office in São Paulo.​

Together with Hague Talks, we invited Mexican cartoonist Guffo at the Peace Palace to tell about his work, and about the importance of cartoons in the fight for human rights. We also made this video:

But December 10 didn't mark the end of this project. Instead, it was the launch of a new contest, this time not just for cartoonists. For this new contest we're asking people around the world the question: What action do you take to support human rights?

New cartoonist: Engin Selçuk

Engin Selçuk is a cartoonist with a focus on gag cartoons. He started publishing his work in newspapers and magazines in the 1990s and has won over 40 awards since. He lives in Izmir, Turkey.

World Press Cartoon 2019

The 2019 edition of World Press Cartoon, one of the most prestigious cartoon contests in the world, is now open for submission. Visit the WPC website for the rules of submission and to download the entry form and identification label. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2019.

Submissions must be published in newspapers or magazines, published on a regular basis and on sale to the public. Since last year, WPC also accepts cartoons that have been published online in ‘professional online publications of recognized journalistic nature’.

We’re very happy that Cartoon Movement is recognized as such, meaning that all the cartoons published on Cartoon Movement by our official cartoonists are eligible to participate. One of last year's winners was in fact a cartoon published on Cartoon Movement.

New Cartoonists from Russia, Morocco and Bahrain

We’re happy to announce yet more cartoonists have decided to join our community:

Mikhail Zlatkovsky - Russia

Mikhail Zlatkovsky has been a cartoonist since 1971. He won more than two hundred awards worldwide and is considered by his peers as one of the greatest among them.

Imad Sanouni - Morocco

Imad Sanouni is an editorial cartoonist from Casablanca, Morocco. Visit his Facebook page to see more of his work.

Sara Qaed - Bahrain/UK

Sara Qaed is an artist, designer, and former teacher. She is originally from Bahrain and now lives in the UK. She received her bachelor in Interior Design and her MA in Fine Art. Check out her Instagram to see more of her work.

New Cartoonist: Nawar Khalil

Nawar Khalil is a cartoonist from, Damascus, Syria. Visit his Facebook page to see more of his work.

Tjeerd Royaards Wins Dutch Cartoon Award

CM editor and cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards has won the Inktspotprijs, a prestigious cartoon award in the Netherlands given to the best cartoon published in the previous year ('Inktspot' is a pun on the Dutch words for ink (inkt) and mockery (spot)). The award was given to Royaards for Good Migrant, Bad Migrant a cartoon that was first published on Cartoon Movement. The cartoon, about the French illegal migrant that saved a child, went viral last May.

A section of the 100 best Dutch cartoons, including the winning cartoon, can be seen in an exhibition that is simultaneously showing on three locations in the Netherlands: the central library in The Hague, the main library in Amsterdam, and the Limburgs Museum.

The exhibition also features work from CM contributors Jean Gouders, Benjamin Kikkert, Emanuele Del Rosso, Moshe Gilula, Gezienus, Hajo, TRIK, Maarten Wolterink and Bart van Leeuwen.

If you can’t take it to one of the exhibition, the selection of 100 cartoons can also be viewed in an online catalogue here.