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Editorial Cartoonist
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or current affairs in a national or international context. Political cartoonists generally adopt a caricaturist style of drawing, to capture the likeness of a politician or subject. They may also employ humor or satire to ridicule an individual or group, emphasize their point of view or comment on a particular event. Media trends The traditional and most common outlet for political cartoonists is the pocket cartoon, which usually appears in the editorial page or the front news page of a newspaper, in the front news section of a newspaper. Editorial cartoons are not usually found in the dedicated comics section, although certain cartoons or comic strips have achieved crossover status. Historically, these are quick, hand-drawn ink drawings, scanned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Shekhar is a Hindu name that may be used as the first or given male name or as the surname. People First name * Shekhar Chatterjee (born 1924), Indian actor and director * Shekhar Chaudhuri, Indian management professor *Shekhar Dutt (born 1951), Indian politician *Shekhar Gawli (1975–2020), Indian cricketer * Shekhar Gupta (born 1957), Indian journalist *Shekhar Gurera (born 1965), Indian cartoonist *Shekhar Joshi (born 1939), Indian author * Shekhar Kapur (born 1945), Indian film director, producer and actor *Shekhar C. Mande (born 1962), Indian scientist *Shekhar Mehta (1945–2006), Kenyan rally driver * Shekhar Pathak (born 1949), Indian historian * Shekhar Ravjiani, Indian musician * Shekhar Sen (born 1961), Indian musician and actor * Shekhar Suman (born 1962), Indian actor and television host Surname * Arjun Shekhar (born 1965), Indian entrepreneur and writer * B. C. Shekhar (1929–2007), Malaysian businessman * Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906–1931), Indian revolutionary * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times Of India
''The Times of India'', also known by its abbreviation ''TOI'', is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is an Indian " newspaper of record". Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called ''TOI'' "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked ''TOI'' among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, ''TOI'' was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. Reuters rated ''TOI'' as India's most trus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atena Farghadani
Atena Farghadani ( fa, آتنا فرقدانی; born 29 January 1987) is an Iranian artist and political activist, who was imprisoned for 18 months. Amnesty International considers her a prisoner of conscience. She was released on 3 May 2016. Arrest and imprisonment One of her cartoons, in which she criticized a draft law which would outlaw voluntary sterilisation and restrict access to measures of birth control, portrayed Iranian government officials as monkeys and goats. After publishing her artworks on Facebook, she was arrested in August 2014 and jailed for three months in Evin Prison in Tehran on charges of spreading propaganda, insulting members of parliament, and insulting the Supreme Leader of Iran. She was released in November. Farghadani sent letters of protest over her treatment to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, Hassan Rouhani, the president, and the head of the prison service, but did not receive a reply. She then posted a video online in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoonists Rights Network International
Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) is a non-profit organisation created in 1999 in the United States by Dr. Robert "Bro" Russell. It looks to protect the human rights and creative freedom of social and editorial cartoonists An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or curre .... CRNI "envisions a world where cartoonists are free from persecution and able to use their creativity as a powerful tool for communication" and "CRNI strengthens the interconnectedness of cartoonists around the world, campaigns to protect their human rights and defends those threatened as a result of their work." Robert Russell Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award Since its foundation in 1999, CRNI has presented a $1000 annual Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award "to a cartoonist who is in great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tignous
Bernard Jean-Charles Verlhac (21 August 1957 – 7 January 2015), known by the pseudonym Tignous (, from oc, Tinhós), was a French cartoonist. He was a long-time staff cartoonist for the French satirical magazine '' Charlie Hebdo''. On 7 January 2015, Tignous was killed in the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting. Biography Tignous was born in Paris on 21 August 1957. He studied drawing at the École Boulle. After working in the comic book field, Tignous began doing cartoons for ''L'Idiot International'', ''La Grosse Bertha'', and ''L'Événement du jeudi''. Tignous first began working at ''Charlie Hebdo'' in 1980, and then rejoined the weekly when it was reborn in 1992. He was also a contributor to the weekly news magazine '' Marianne'' and the monthly publication '' Fluide Glacial''. In addition, he drew for ''Télérama'' and '' L'Echo des Savanes''. Tignous was also active in the French role-playing world, with his illustrations featured in games like '' Rêve de Dragon'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabu
Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (; 13 January 19387 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (), was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the '' Charlie Hebdo'' newspaper offices. Cabu was a staff cartoonist and shareholder at ''Charlie Hebdo''. Career Cabu started out studying art at the École Estienne in Paris and his drawings were first published by 1954 in a local newspaper. The Algerian War forced him to be conscripted in the army for over two years, where his talent was used in the army magazine ''Bled'' and in '' Paris Match''. His time in the army caused him to become a strident anti-militarist and adopt a slightly anarchistic view of society.Obituary in '' |
Charb
Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier (; 21 August 1967 – 7 January 2015), better known as Charb (), was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated during the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting on 7 January 2015. He worked for several newspapers and magazines, joining '' Charlie Hebdo'' in 1992 and becoming the director of publication in 2009. Due to the publication of Muhammad cartoons, Charb became subject to death threats from extremist Muslims. From the time the magazine was firebombed in 2011, he lived under police protection until his assassination. The police officer protecting Charb on 7 January 2015 was also killed by the shooters. Early life Stéphane Charbonnier was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on 21 August 1967 and raised in Pontoise, the son of Michel Jean-Marie Charbonnier. His mother, Denise Renée-Marie Charbonnier, née Ouvrard, worked as a secretary and his father worked as a technician for Postes, télégraphes et téléphone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. He is believed to be the Seal of the Prophets within Islam. Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity, with the Quran as well as his teachings and practices forming the basis of Islamic religious belief. Muhammad was born approximately 570CE in Mecca. He was the son of Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and Amina bint Wahb. His father Abdullah was the son of Quraysh tribal leader Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, and he died a few months before Muhammad's birth. His mother Amina died when he was six, leaving Muhammad an orphan. He was raised under the care of his grandfather, Abd al-Muttalib, and paternal uncle, Abu Talib. In later years, he would periodically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Hebdo
''Charlie Hebdo'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as anti-racist, sceptical, secular, and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism, publishing articles about the far-right (especially the French nationalist National Front party), religion (Catholicism, Islam and Judaism), politics and culture. The magazine has been the target of three terrorist attacks: in 2011, 2015, and 2020. All of them were presumed to be in response to a number of cartoons that it published controversially depicting Muhammad. In the second of these attacks, 12 people were killed, including publishing director Charb and several other prominent cartoonists. ''Charlie Hebdo'' first appeared in 1970 after the monthly ''Hara-Kiri'' magazine was banned for mocking the death of former French president Charles de Gaulle. In 1981, publication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Westergaard
Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons, which triggered several assassinations and murders committed by Muslims around the world, diplomatic conflicts, and state-organized riots and attacks on Western embassies with several dead in Muslim countries. After the drawing of the cartoon, Westergaard received numerous death threats and was a target of assassination attempts. As a result, he was under constant police protection. Early life Westergaard was born on 13 July 1935 in the village of Døstrup, in the Mariagerfjord area of Jutland. He grew up in a conservative Christian family ( Inner Mission) environment, going to Sunday school. Westergaard was introduced to cultural radicalism during high school in the 1950s, which he experienced as an "epiphany" and "a liberation from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajit Ninan
Ajit Ninan (born 1955 in Hyderabad, India) is an Indian political cartoonist, best known for drawing the ''Centrestage'' series of cartoons in India Today magazine and ''Ninan's World'' in the Times of India. Ninan lives in New Delhi, where he works for the Times of India. Work Comic strips * Detective Moochhwala, published in Target magazine. Cartoons * ''Ajit Ninan's Funny World'', published in Target magazine * ''Just Like That!'' published daily in the Times Of India. * ''Like That Only!'' (along with Jug Suraiya Jug Suraiya is a prominent Indian journalist, author and columnist. He is best known as a satirist and columnist. Suraiya is a former editorial opinion editor and associate editor of the '' Times of India''. He is Delhi-based and schooled at La M ...), published bi-weekly in the Times Of India. * ''Centrestage'', published in India Today * ''Ninan's World'', published in the Times of India * ''Poli Tricks'', a series of cartoons during the 2009 Indian gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Miranda
Mário João Carlos do Rosário de Brito Miranda (2 May 1926 – 11 December 2011), popularly known as Mario Miranda or Mario de Miranda, was an Indian cartoonist and painter based in Loutolim in the Indian state of Goa. Miranda had been a regular with ''The Times of India'' and other newspapers in Mumbai, including ''The Economic Times'', though he got his popularity with his works published in '' The Illustrated Weekly of India''. He was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan (posthumously) in 2012. Life and career Early life Miranda was born in Daman, then in Portuguese India, to Catholic parents of Brahmin origin and his family surname is Sardesai. At an early age, he would draw caricatures and sketch on the walls of his home, until his mother brought him a blank book. He then began making personalised postcards for his friends, charging them a token amount, in the 1930s and 1940s. He even started getting into trouble at school, for sketchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
