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OTTAWA, May 2, 2013 /CNW/ - Thirteen prize-winning editorial cartoons are now available, at no cost, for publication on May 3rd in celebration of World Press Freedom Day. The Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom (CCWPF) will announce the winners of its annual international editorial cartoon competition at a luncheon in Ottawa on Friday, May 3rd. Selected out of hundreds of submissions from around the world, three top cartoonists will win cash prizes and ten runner-ups...
Caricature Maker Pro, a newly launched addition to the iTunes App Store and Android Market, allows users to create caricatures of themselves and others. Seoul, South Korea (PRWEB) January 27, 2012 Caricature Maker Pro, a newly launched addition to the iTunes App Store and Android Market, allows users to create caricatures of themselves and others. The simple-to-use application begins the caricature creation process with a photo chosen or taken by the user. Gallery images may be used,...
SOLOTHURN, Switzerland, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Picture is available via EPA (European Pressphoto Agency) and can be downloaded free of charge at: http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100017384 (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090513/347153 ) Over 150 spitting-image portrait caricatures of leading international politicians, celebrities and stars are available at nicocartoon.com. A picture of former US President George W. Bush is just one example. The...
By Leah Eichler LONDON (Reuters) - Caricatures are meant to provoke -- and sometimes they can turn deadly, as the furor surrounding the Prophet Mohammed cartoons has shown. But London satirists today tend to attack prejudice itself, says Mark Bills, curator of "Satirical London," a new exhibit at the Museum of London. The exhibit, which opens on April 1 and runs until September 3, examines the long history of satire in the city, with over 350 images from the last three centuries. One...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has reprimanded one of its biggest daily newspapers for printing a cartoon lampooning the global controversy over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. The government's move has fanned a hot debate in this mainly Muslim country about where to draw the line between press freedom and respect of religion, because this time it involves a newspaper closely aligned with mainstream Muslim opinion. The English-language New Straits Times had defended its right...
By Michael Conlon CHICAGO (Reuters) - North American newspapers have given extensive coverage to the anger that cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad unleashed across the world but have taken a hands-off approach to reprinting the caricatures themselves. "I don't see it as a necessity to run them," said John Diaz, editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. "There's a lot of ways that we can gratuitously offend our readers. We want to avoid that." Muslims generally believe their...
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's leading newspaper El Pais on Friday became part of a growing international row by publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on its front page. The cartoon, originally published by France's Le Monde, portrayed the head of the Prophet Mohammad made up of lines which say "I must not draw Mohammad" in French. Newspapers in France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary have reprinted caricatures originally published in Denmark, arguing that press freedom is...
