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Exhibition of ultra-Orthodox military draft cartoons vandalized ahead of Animix Festival

A young man wearing a kippah confronted organizers and Tel Aviv Cinematheque CEO Tomer Cohen. They said he tore down and damaged parts of the exhibition before attempting to flee.

Cartoon showing Moses saying, "Don't they teach  this commandment at yeshivas?" and holding a tablet that says, "Thou shalt not vandalize cartoons," created in response to the incident.
CARTOON ANIMALS by lifetime achievement award winner Dovi Keich.

Tel Aviv's Animix festival combines political satire, cartoons with tributes, memorials, lectures

THE CHIZBATRON, (1948) by Arieh Navon

Ink and irony: A closer look at the cartoonist who chronicled Israel’s formative years

A detail from Arthur Szyk's “They Too Have a Right to Live,”  which first appeared in the May 12, 1943 issue of The New York Times and was presumably sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an organization founded by Zionist activist Peter Bergson in 1943.

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 


Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of

A pioneer of graphic storytelling, Chast reflects on what inspires her and what the genre brings to the art world.

 A cartoon posted to Roz Chast's Instagram in November 2023. The caption: Betty and Mickey: it’s complicated. NB.: lower right: Mickey and his human ears

Animix festival in Tel Aviv presents ‘The Island,’ ‘Batman,’ Disney princesses

The animation, comics, and caricature festival is to include a cartoonist discussion of Israel's ongoing mass protests.

 A FRAME from ‘The Island.’

The Guardian apologizes for running antisemitic cartoon of ex-BBC chairman

Former BBC chairman Richard Sharp resigned after it was revealed he failed to declare that he had helped Boris Johnson secure a large loan.

 The Guardian building in London.

'100 Cartoons': Drawings that summarize Israeli, Zionist history - review

100 Cartoons was not a history book told in comic strip form, but an academic study of the history of Zionism and the modern State of Israel, using cartoons to illustrate the issues of the times.

 CARTOONS FROM the reviewed book: Zion: Lieder des ghetto. Drawn by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1903).

The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren

Koren was once described as the “poet laureate” of the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

 Ed Koren’s books included many of the more than 1,000 cartoons he published in The New Yorker over a six-decade career.

Grapevine March 1, 2023: Between Jerusalem and Rome

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 SOME OF the members of the Indian Embassy team who ran in the Tel Aviv Marathon.

'Dilbert' comics pulled from US newspapers after creator's racist comment

The creator of the American comic strip “Dilbert” made racist comments on his YouTube channel. Now, his comic is being dumped by newspapers all over the US.

 Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert", the cartoon character that lampoons the absurdities of corporate life, poses with two "Dilbert" characters at a party January 8, 1999 in Pasadena, Calif.

Int'l Winnie the Pooh Day: How do stuffed toys aid early development?

Winnie the Pooh Day is celebrated every year on January 18, the birthday of the British author A.A. Milne (1882-1956), who wrote the book.

 Pooh with Tigger and Eeyore at the Shanghai Disney Resort in 2019.

Only 5% of readers can find the candle in this picture – can you?

Most participants said that it took them over a minute to find the hidden candle, while others claimed that it was not in the picture at all.

 Will you be able to find the candle?

Happy 50th anniversary of the Dry Bones cartoons

The Dry Bones cartoonist, who has been called a “national treasure of the Jewish people,” has received many awards, such as the Nefesh B’Nefesh Bonei Zion Award and The Golden Pencil Award.

 Yaakov Kirschen at work, and one of his Dry Bones classic cartoons.