Cartoon Movement

Cartoonists for Democracy

37 cartoonists from around the world will gather at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg on November 6, 7 and 8 at the invitation of Cartooning for Peace. Among them are many CM members, including Pedro X. Molina, Camdelafu, Marilena Nardi and Ali Ghamir. Read the full programme here.

Blocked in China, Iran, Russia and Turkey

If you can read this post, you are part of the diminishing group that enjoys free access to the Internet (or using a VPN). An old saying about cartoonists states that a good cartoon always needs to piss off someone.

We tend to agree, and it seems we are doing a good job pissing off those in power, especially those despots who fear a few lines will make them lose their power. How do we know this? Cartoon Movement is currently blocked in China, Iran, Russia and Turkey.

Source: Comparitech

New Cartoonist: Riccardo Marinucci

Riccardo Marinucci is an Italian cartoonist from Abruzzo. His work is published by Italian online media and has appeared on TV. He is is also one of the founders of Sputnink, a collective of young Italian cartoonists. Follow him on Instagram to see more of his work.

New Cartoonist: GASGO

GASGO is a cartoonist who doubles as a sports writer for an online news agency in the Philippines.

Lands of Disobedience 2019 - Catalogue

Lands of Disobedience, the cartoon competition organized by Italian cartoonist and CM member Emanuele Del Rosso, has published a digital catalogue featuring 33 cartoons that were selected from over 300 submissions.

You can download the catalogue via this link.

New Cartoonist: David Kerr

David Kerr is an illustrator, comic artist and satirical cartoonist from Glasgow, Scotland, now living in Helsinki.

His editorial cartoons have been published in The New Internationalist Magazine (UK), Monthly Review (US), Stir to Action Magazine (UK), Variant Magazine (UK), The Morning Star Newspaper (UK) and the Scottish Politics website Bella Caledonia.

Check out his website to see more of his work.

New Cartoonist: Timo Essner

Timo Essner is a cartoonist from Germany. His work is mainly published in German newspapers, on websites and in school books. Check out his website to see more of his work.

Comics Journalism - Stories from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo

This month we’ll be publishing two comics we have produced for The Politics of Return, a research project of the London School of Economics exploring the dynamics of return and reintegration of refugees in Central and Eastern Africa.

We have already published two comics earlier this year: Uganda's Forgotten Children, by Charity Atukunda and Displacement and Return in the Central African Republic, by Didier Kassai. Uganda's Forgotten Children focuses on the 30,000 children that were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). What became of them when they returned to society? Displacement and Return in CAR is about the people (mainly Muslims) that fled the conflict. Now that the violence has ended, can they return and find a place in society?

In September we'll be publishing two further instalments in this series.

The first one, He Cannot Marry Her by Tom Dai and Naomi Pendle, is about marriage and identity in Both Sudan. By deciding who can marry who (and thus have children), chiefs' courts have a huge influence on identity politics in South Sudan, where even the dead can marry and have children.

The second one, Between Two Spaces by Victor Ndula and Koen Vlassenrroot, shows why disarming combatants in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been less than successful.

He Cannot Marry Her will be published on September 10 and Between Two Spaces will be published on September 17.

New Cartoonist: Nahid Maghsoudi

Nahid Maghsoudi is an award-winning cartoonist from Iran.

New Cartoonist: ROY

We are delighted that Chris 'ROY' Taylor has decided to join Cartoon Movement. ROY is an Australian cartoonist who has worked for the Herald Sun for years. He has also authored a number of (children's) books.