| CARTOON WARS A cartoon presentation delivered by Terry Mosher to The Ottawa Press Club on the occasion of World Press Freedom day Ottawa -- May 3, 2006 |
…with all of the participants asking for separate cheques.
Brian Gable of The Globe and Mail drew a Wall Street type during the recent
financial scandals seeking confession from a Catholic priest…
Brian Gable of The Globe and Mail drew a Wall Street type during the recent
financial scandals seeking confession from a Catholic priest…
So religion is fair game in our part of the world, and from many different points of
view. In the 1960s, George Feyer drew a cartoon for Maclean’s Magazine of
the Last Supper…
view. In the 1960s, George Feyer drew a cartoon for Maclean’s Magazine of
the Last Supper…
The third argument is that the Mohammed cartoons were in bad taste.
Well, hey, that’s what we do!
We say things that are ordinarily considered quite unacceptable in polite society.
Here, for example, O’Farrell, an Australian, has drawn a hilarious cartoon of
an onlooker in heaven who is commenting on the whole Mohammed toon
business…
Well, hey, that’s what we do!
We say things that are ordinarily considered quite unacceptable in polite society.
Here, for example, O’Farrell, an Australian, has drawn a hilarious cartoon of
an onlooker in heaven who is commenting on the whole Mohammed toon
business…
… saying to Jesus: Christ, almighty, Jesus, don’t these people have a
goddamn sense of humor!!!
There’s good news and bad news out of all this kerfuffle.
The good news has been the response of cartoonists, who have collectively
thumbed their noses at the whole issue.
Let me show you a small selection…
goddamn sense of humor!!!
There’s good news and bad news out of all this kerfuffle.
The good news has been the response of cartoonists, who have collectively
thumbed their noses at the whole issue.
Let me show you a small selection…
…who was a tad preoccupied with moral issues of his own.
Or this, in The New Yorker, on the evangelical Christian right in the United Statesâ
€¦
Or this, in The New Yorker, on the evangelical Christian right in the United Statesâ
€¦
LaPresse cartoonist Serge Chapleau has himself dressed in a suicide belt of
pencils – or weapons of mass destruction.
Here’s the same message but with a different take by Michael DeAdder of the
Halifax Daily News…
pencils – or weapons of mass destruction.
Here’s the same message but with a different take by Michael DeAdder of the
Halifax Daily News…
Or Graeme MacKay in the Hamilton Spectator.
In The Globe and Mail, Brian Gable drew the four…
…horsemen of The Apocalypse. Sorry. The five horsemen of the Apocalypse
Some cartoonists even suggested a compromise, as here by Dan Murphy in The
Vancouver Province…
Some cartoonists even suggested a compromise, as here by Dan Murphy in The
Vancouver Province…
Susan Dewar in The Ottawa Sun put a tongue-in-cheek positive spin on the
events – from a newspaper editor’s point of view.
events – from a newspaper editor’s point of view.
But when things really got serious, with a Fatwa being declared on the Danish
cartoonists, Bruce MacKinnon of The Halifax Chronicle Herald drew a self-
portrait…
cartoonists, Bruce MacKinnon of The Halifax Chronicle Herald drew a self-
portrait…
And then, when some Pakistani clerics offered $25,000 and a new car for the
death of any one of the Danish cartoonists, I couldn’t resist drawing …
death of any one of the Danish cartoonists, I couldn’t resist drawing …
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