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News: August 2010

Cartoonist uses oil spill as a medium

AFRICARTOONS.COM

TWO-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNING CARTOONIST STEVE BREEN (for the newspaper San Diego Union-Tribune) was so incensed by the oil spill in the Mexican Gulf that he decided to use the pollution against the polluters.

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Posted on Aug 26, 2010 by Africartoons

AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF CARTOONS

'ZUMA'S ROAD TO VICTORY'Reviewed by JOHN CURTIS

QAP'S (Mqapheli) MNGADI is the only cartoonist in South Africa whose work is published regularly in an indigenous African language - unless one describes Afrikaans as such a language. This fact alone makes Qap's collection of just over 100 cartoons (in both English and isiZulu) a very important work.

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Posted on Aug 25, 2010 by Africartoons

Local Cartoonists Present a Picture of Cartooning Today

BY VC WILKINSON (for SA Art Times)

Incisive wit combined with skilled technique - a lethal combination and essential prerequisite for successful political cartooning.  Some of South Africa’s best political cartoonists presented their takes on reality and cartooning history at the Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe in July and August.

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Posted on Aug 21, 2010 by Africartoons

Cartoonists stand against media restrictions

BY JOHN CURTIS

South Africa’s top editorial cartoonists have banded together to protest against the government’s intended press restrictions.

In rejecting the proposed Protection of Information Bill and Media Tribunal, they have warned that these restrictions will erode the right to freedom of expression achieved by the country’s hard fought struggle for democracy.

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Posted on Aug 12, 2010 by Africartoons

Masterclass on Political Cartooning

SAT 14 - SUN 15 AUGUST: THE ANNEXE: IZIKO

The Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts (CCIBA) is hosting a hands-on interactive workshop with Cape Town’s top cartoonists at the Izeko Museum in the Company Gardens in Cape Town this weekend.

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Posted on Aug 12, 2010 by Africartoons

Zapiro sports a fresh theme

Renowned for his hard hitting political commentary, editorial cartoonist ZAPIRO (Jonathan Shapiro) has sifted through some 4000 drawings to extract the best of his sport themed cartoons for a presentation he made this past week at the Cape Town Book Fair. Africartoons was there to take notes.

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Posted on Aug 05, 2010 by Africartoons