Annual Convention

Annual Convention October 5-8

The AAEC and Association of Canadian Cartoonists will be joining with the Cartoon Art Museum in San Franscisco for a 3-day celebration of editorial art and political cartoonists, October 5-8, 2023.

Online registration is now open!


Cartoonist making readers mad, part I

ICYMI — A cartoon by Michael Ramirez made a lot of people angry last week. The epicenter of the shockwave was the Southeast Missourian, a newspaper in Cape Girardeau some 100 miles southeast of St. Louis, but it soon went national and was picked up by NBC.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cartoon-depiction-mlk-s-i-have-dream-speech-missouri-newspaper-n1237478

The cartoon, drawn in reaction to a single quote by a BLM protestor in Chicago, showed Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his “I have a dream” speech — but twisting the words to support looting — and was quickly condemned as racist. Defenders said Ramirez’s commentary was taken out of context and should be read as a reaction to a call for violence. Angry letters and threats flooded into the paper over the next few days as other media outlets picked up the story as it went viral.

https://www.semissourian.com/story/2829622.html

https://thegrio.com/2020/08/21/martin-luther-king-jr-cartoon-missouri-racist/

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/some-readers-call-cartoon-featured-in-southeast-missourian-racist/63-7e8fde62-cc80-44ee-960f-f59456ed327a

 

 

 

 

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