Thirty-six states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear cases from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee over whether same-sex marriages should be legal throughout the nation or if individual states have the right to determine that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. It’s time for the question to be resolved. It’s time for equality for all Americans.
The two major U.S. cartooning groups and a cartoonists rights organization issued statements immediately after the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo (click on each for full statement).
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC):
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS):
Cartoonists Rights Network International:
Four cartoonists Five cartoonists were among the 12 murdered at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7th. My colleagues have banded together and continue to offer their support in the way they know best- through cartoons.
I’ll add more links later but meanwhile here’s the cartoon I drew in support of Charlie Hebdo right after hearing the horrible news:
My opinion piece “The killing of cartoonists” at the Washington Post
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor. The New York Times has a story about how the Turkish president is trying to limit how he is depicted in drawings by arresting cartoonists and charging them with libel and insulting government officials (which is apparently against the law in Turkey). The Cartoonists Rights Network International also writes about it here.
My Washington Post cartoon about President Erdogan arresting a 16-year-old because the teenager criticized him received quite a bit of traffic on twitter among Turkish readers. It also ended up on the front page of Cumhuriyet, the oldest Turkish daily newspaper.
My Washington Post editor, Karen Attiah, put together a great year-end review of several animations, sketches and gifs. Check it out here.
Former VP Dick Cheney was interviewed on Fox News last night and said President Bush was “fully informed” about the CIA interrogation methods, contradicting the Senate report’s finding that Bush was first briefed in 2006.
click image for animated gif