Category Archives: Cartoon

Cartoon of the month: Progress in Afghanistan

Posted on February 22, 2019

Cartoon by Samuel Embleton, alias “Sarcasam” when drawing for the press. Sam is an Anglo-Swiss freelance illustrator and comic strip author. His work ranges from illustration for publishing to visual communication for companies and storyboarding for clients worldwide. He is … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: (T)error(ism)

Posted on February 19, 2015

• • • After the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS), who had been seized in December and January from Libya’s eastern town of Sirte, Egypt has retaliated with airstrikes in Libya beginning … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: Tell me …

Posted on January 10, 2015

• • • This cartoon was drawn by Israeli cartoonist Shlomo Cohen. He was born in 1943 in Israel, and studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. He works as political cartoonist for the newspaper … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: 2015

Posted on December 28, 2014

This cartoon was drawn by Payam Boromand from Tehran, Iran. Born in 1984, he was graduated from Islamic Azad University, Faculty of Arts in 2007. He has been working as a cartoonist in Iranian newspapers and weekly magazines. Currently, he … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: Peacekeeper of the 21st Century

Posted on November 18, 2014

At the end of last week, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced an ambitious effort to identify and develop weapons systems to enable continued U.S. Military dominance in the 21st century. The new Defense Innovation Initiative — led by … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: Decisive Action

Posted on October 30, 2014

Barack’s Obama “no boots on the ground” policy and the attempt to combat against the terror organization called the Islamic State (IS) doesn’t work out, until yet. A poll in the US, conducted by CBS News end of October, shows … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: Terror Games

Posted on September 15, 2014

Iranian cartoonist Mohsen Izadi sees ISIS (also known by the derogatory term “Daesh” in the Arab world) as a new political toy in the Middle East, without their own will or political ideology. This does beg the question: who is … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: CR(ISIS)

Posted on July 8, 2014

As large parts of Iraq are taken over by ISIS, Nouri al-Maliki, who won the 30 April elections, faces dissent between Sunnis, Shi’ites and Kurds in Parliament as well, making the future leadership in Iraq very uncertain. • • • … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: Meanwhile… in Iraq

Posted on June 19, 2014

The cartoon was drawn by Marian Kamensky, a cartoonist from Austria. Marian Kamensky was born on 1st April 1957 in Levoča, studied Lithography at the Hamburg Arts College in 1981. He began illustrating the satirical books of Gabriel Laub in … Continue reading →

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Cartoon of the month: Robbery (?)

Posted on May 16, 2014

Are the Pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine robbers, stealing sovereignty from the central government? Or are they freedom fighters, fighting for their right to independence (or their right to join Russia)? As is often the case, history will very probably … Continue reading →

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