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Army Of God, Part 4

Monday, May 14th, 2012 by Matt Bors

Cross-posted at Cartoon Movement

Today we publish the fourth installment of Army Of God by David Axe and Tim Hamilton. This chapter examines the history of the infamous leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, who has long evaded capture. Over the last year, Kony has virtually become a household name and efforts to arrest him have been ramping up. Just yesterday, the Associated Press reported that Ugandan forces had captured one of his top commanders.

If you aren’t caught up on Army Of God, check out previous chapters on our project page.

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McMillan wins the RFK Award

Monday, May 14th, 2012 by Matt Bors

Cross-posted at Cartoon Movement

Stephanie McMillan has been awarded the prestigious RFK Journalism Award for editorial cartooning, which is given for work focusing on “human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action.” McMillan is a regular contributor to Cartoon Movement and her RFK entry included both her Code Green editorial cartoons and “The Beginning of the American Fall” piece she did for us in November.

“I’m gratified to have my work recognized specifically as a contribution to social justice,” McMillan tells us. “The reasons I draw cartoons are to expose the fundamentally unjust nature of the global capitalist/imperialist system, and to encourage resistance to it. I consider my cartoon work to be complementary to building actual organized resistance. Artists who care about social justice should be involved in the struggle for it, and dedicate their work in its service.”

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Jerusalem

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 by Matt Bors

A review of Guy DeLisle’s Jerusalem by S.I. Rosenbaum at Cartoon Movement.

In Pyongyang, witnessing a terrifyingly cheerful concert of girl accordionists, Delisle imagines the grim trajectories of their lives; he writes that he feels like weeping. Here, no such compassion is evident, and its apparent lack — even when a Palestinian babysitter tearfully tells him that her house is to be bulldozed by the Israeli government — is conspicuous. In North Korea, as an observer, Delisle was blinkered by his government handlers. Here, he’s choosing to look away. Given a chance to witness the Israeli bombing of Gaza with some journalists, he feels squeamish ( a series of fumetti show him envisioning the experience being scary) and he decides to skip it.

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Gonzo

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 by Matt Bors

Sarah Jaffe reviews Gonzo: A Graphic Biography Of Hunter S. Thompson at Cartoon Movement:

And it’s an incomplete story, like all biographies, but the tale it tells is, I think, an important one. It’s the story of the man whose work matters to me and to so many other journalists who left the myth of objectivity in the dust, who can’t help but let the anger and passion we feel show in our work. There’s a number of us, who have taken from Thompson not his style or his habits but the feeling that rang in every line of his (best) prose. It’s telling that the worst imitators always want to rewrite Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but the real legacy of Thompson the journalist is in stories of politics and intrigue, freedom and fairness, not in drug binges and outlandish metaphors. [Read the rest.]

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Interactive International Criminal Court comic

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 by Matt Bors

Today on Cartoon Movement we’re publishing our second interactive comic by Dan Archer, ‘International Criminal Court: Global Deterrent or Paper Tiger?‘ Archer’s comic explores the ICC, based in The Hague, from a historical and political perspective. The central question: Is the ICC a global deterrent or a paper tiger?

The main thread of Archer’s comic reads horizontally, telling the history of the ICC and the central questions it faces. Supplemental information is provided by scrolling through the vertical panels, allowing readers to choose how deep they want to go into the story. Read Dan’s blog post today for more on the creation of the comic.

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Canadian Editorial Cartooning

Friday, February 10th, 2012 by Matt Bors

Canadian editorial cartoonist JJ McCullough writes about his country’s scene over at the Cartoon Movement blog:

Like many industries in the country, Canadian editorial cartooning is primarily a legacy business built around a few long-running brands and a handful of domineering personalities. Like Canadian politics, it tends to be fairly closed world of conventional opinions and self-perpetuating cliques. Like Canada itself, its future is hardly certain.

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Comics Journalism in 2012

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 by Matt Bors

On the Cartoon Movement blog, I’ve written about the past year editing the site and preview two major projects we are publishing in 2012: The 75 page Haiti project and a graphic novel from David Axe and Tim Hamilton on the Congo.

When we began Cartoon Movement as an international platform for cartoonists, we had an idea: what if we published comics journalism regularly and treated it like a real thing worthy of respect. That is, what if reporting stories through comics wasn’t a novelty, but an actual field comprised of professionals who happen to use cartooning where others use prose or film. What if in the great media transition we are living through, comics were actually a perfect vehicle for telling real stories about real people.

Notice the lack of question marks there.

Comics journalism has received increased attention and legitimacy recently and we’d like to think we’ve played a part. In our first year of publishing we’ve gone into the slums of Rio, undercover in America’s pregnancy centers, visited Iraqi refugees in Syria, seen numerous Occupy protests, and looked at the Nisoor Square massacre in Iraq in one of the first interactive pieces of comics journalism.

Keep reading and go look at that art!

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Cartoon Movement Turns One

Monday, December 19th, 2011 by Matt Bors

Last week Cartoon Movement celebrated its one year anniversary. We’ve accomplished a lot so far and Tjeerd has  a rundown over on the blog. I’m really proud of the work I’ve been able to publish and edit over the last year. I’ll write more in a bit about the upcoming projects for 2012.

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Spotlight on Haiti

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 by Matt Bors

This past summer I spent a month in Haiti for a Cartoon Movement project to produce comics journalism about the situation there. I was accompanied by my colleague Tjeerd Royaards and video journalist Caroline Bins, who shot and edited the video below.

On 12 January 2012, the second anniversary of the earthquake, we will publish the first comic that has resulted from that project.

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Occupy Sketchbook: European Edition

Thursday, December 8th, 2011 by Matt Bors

This week on Cartoon Movement we published our final installment of Occupy Sketchbook. With the protests growing beyond the States we thought we’d do a European edition. Spiros Derveniotis sent in sketches from Athens, Tjeerd Royaards visited Occupy Amsterdam, and Tom Humbertone filed from London.

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