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The Naked Taoiseach

Fence — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:07:52 -0800

With threats of strikes and an emergency budget due you might assume the Irish government would be more concerned with economics than artwork. You’d be wrong. After discovering the two “uncomissioned” portraits of Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen the gardaí (Irish police) have gotten involved. The national broadcaster has issued an apology and removed all trace of the original broadcast. (It hasn’t gone away you know). In response twitter is having a field day and now there’s an online nudey-postcard(NSFW) campaign gaining ground. Has the recession stolen Mr. Cowen’s sense of humour (NSFW)?

Christians AGAINST Cartoons!

defenestration — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:19:34 -0800

Christians AGAINST Cartoons!

Take THAT, Louis Phillipe!

Alvy Ampersand — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:12:45 -0800

Thomas Nast, Honoré Daumier, Bill Mauldin, David Low, Theodor Geisel, Herblock, and good grief, more Herblock! In honor of some sort of election that's apparently coming up, Comics Should Be Good! will be featuring one ink-stained satirist every day this October! Visit the Stars of Political Cartooning Month Archive for daily updates.

Massive editorial cartoon database.

Rumple — Sat, 13 May 2006 11:01:48 -0800

Searchable database of >120,000, reasonably high-resolution editorial cartooons. Mainly from the UK, and from the last 100 years. Search by person depicted (e.g., Thatcher, Gorbachev, Thatcher and Gorbachev); by year (e.g., Hitler and Stalin in 1941 or 1942), by design elements (e.g., cartoons referencing sculpture by Rodin, or cartoons with zebras), by topic (e.g., BSE, Falklands War), by artist (e.g., William Hogarth, L.G. Illingworth, Carl Giles, Steve Bell) or by publication outlet (e.g., Punch, Evening Standard (over 10,000 from Evening Standard alone). There is a handy searching wizard as well.

cartoons by Leslie Illingworth

bob sarabia — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:56:36 -0800

4,563 cartoons by Welsh cartoonist Leslie Illingworth

"The Illingworth cartoon collection at the National Library, which contains 4,563 images, explores a wide variety of topics through the eyes of one of Britain's best known cartoonists of the twentieth century."

America Bashing by Stephane Peray

plep — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:57:09 -0800

America Bashing. By Thai cartoonist Stephane Peray.

Tanzanian Cartoons

plep — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:54:34 -0800

Tanzanian Cartoons.

Küss die Hand!

MrBaliHai — Mon, 05 May 2003 18:43:25 -0800

Manfred Deix is a caricaturist/satirist whose outrageous cartoons zero in on the sordid sexuality, racist politics, and other rather disturbing aspects of Austrian culture, with a distinctly Tyrolian flair. Understanding his work doesn't necessarily require fluency in Austro-Bavarian, but it sure helps sometimes (Caution: many of these images are NSFW).

Fight it out Guys! Go for Broke!

hughbot — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:22:01 -0800

Penny Arcade, everyone's favorite gamegeek comic strip(well, not everyone's, but mine) is facing legal action over a recent strip they did, parodying Strawberry Shortcake. It seems American Greetings owner of such 80s icons as Popples and the aforementioned Shortcake, don't take too kindly to folks using their precious nostalgia. Here's the offending cartoon.

swift — Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:15:02 -0800

Political cartoons, and lots of them. Updated daily. Better than the Daily Show.

Veruca — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 07:53:12 -0800

Curious George W.