Round-up: What the Bloghorn saw

Rob Murray writes: Life magazine has compiled a diverse selection of wartime caricatures of Adolf Hitler, and points out that “in the right hands a pen, a paint brush, or a crude puppet can be an effective weapon.” You can see the slideshow here. A new film has turned to animation to tell the story […]

Cartoonists in peril

Cartoonists in this country might be feeling the pinch at the moment, but at least they don’t work under the threat of arrest, assault or even death. In Honduras recently, cartoonist Allan McDonald (interview) was detained for 24 hours, had his studio ransacked and cartoons and drawing materials destroyed following the publication of several cartoons […]

Colour coded-cartoons…

The Guardian recently ran this piece on a series of political caricatures of the candidates in the upcoming Iranian presidential elections. The cartoons are (unsurprisingly) anonymous, and are being distributed virally by email and blogs. Earlier political events in Iran have been covered in cartoon form by Marjane Satrapi in her graphic novel (and later […]