When Paul Harris entered a newspaper cartooning competition in Guyana in 1983, he did it not because he wanted to but to make his father happy. [caption id="attachment_9104" align="alignleft" width="173"] Guyanese cartoonist Paul Harris (courtesy)[/caption]…
Roger Dahl, an unlikely Japanese political cartoonist When Roger Dahl moved to Japan in 1989, he was like hundreds of other recent college grads - looking for adventure and funding it by teaching English. [caption…
"A political cartoonist is always on the cutting edge of free expression, given that they are constantly making fun of powerful people." Patrick Gathara came of age as Kenya began its transition to a multiparty…
They even put up a notice in the state paper, The People's Daily, denouncing me as a "pro-Japan traitor." It was nearly midnight, and Chinese cartoonist Wang Liming (王立铭) had just returned to his Beijing apartment…
"If I censor myself, I would not be a cartoonist anymore. A cartoonist cannot censor himself." If there’s a face of Ecuador’s widening efforts to censor the press, it’s cartoonist Xavier Bonilla. Known by his…
Malaysian police have seized about 200 copies of a new book by a political cartoonist known for lampooning the government, local news reports said. The cartoonist Zunar, whose real name is Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, said…
'We thought that the cartoonists that were most in danger were African cartoonists.' The slaying of five French cartoonists in attacks by Islamic extremists Jan. 7 triggered massive demonstrations in France. And it made free…
