The Herald Sun claims its cartoon of Serena Williams isn't racist, but it draws on 200 years of caricaturing of African women.
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Expectations were high for the latest project from the creator of The Simpsons.
The cat and mouse comedy duo have been locked in conflict for more than 78 years now.
It's not just how characters look. How they talk and the role they play have a profound impact on kids, who are quick to categorize characters as 'good' or 'bad' based on superficial qualities.
Princesses are not great role models if we want to raise empowered daughters.
Killers, cartoons, and even romantic objects, the cactus's ongoing popularity has led it down some strange paths.
Still going strong in its 30th year, The Simpsons follows a strict animation style guide based on Matt Groening's own rules, and has much to teach young animators
It's the 100th anniversary of the birth of graphic novel pioneer Will Eisner.
A young Iranian detained on Manus Island has won a prestigious international award for his cartoons reflecting life there. Our government should allow this young man to fly to the US to accept his award.
Bill Leak's cartoon of a drunk Aboriginal father who doesn't know his son's name exemplifies a long tradition of white men's fantasies about the inferiority of Aboriginal people.
Two recent controversial cartoons depicting people as apes have raised an important question: what are the legal and philosophical distinctions between harm and offence?
Some might say we're in the age of the 'priceless' child, but The New Yorker certainly doesn't think so.
From a vertically challenged Napoleon to a drunken prince, James Gillray inspired cartoonists for centuries.
Books and the ballot box have a long and winding history.
In the month since the the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the significance of visual representation has been a topic of much discussion. Political cartoons have the potential to reinforce problematic stereotypes…
They think and work differently, cartoonists. Anyone who has spent any time in an editorial office will know that cartoonists dream and draw on their own, working to the rhythm of their thoughts – if they…
In 2009, communications scholars Esra Özcan, Ognyan Seizov and I wrote an academic paper on the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy and its aftermath. We concluded that “visuals have to be taken more seriously…
Cartoonists and satirists in “the West” are confronted with the risks of their expressive freedom today as a consequence of the assassinations at Charlie Hebdo in Paris. This is how illiberal authoritarians…
As late as 1976, in what must have been one of the last things he wrote, the poet and controversialist James McAuley asserted, in a foreword to a volume of cartoons by George Molnar entitled Moral Tales…
Cartoonists working in a liberal democracy have a licence to be satirical, comic and even outrageous because they are the modern day court jesters. Since 1996 we have been studying political cartoons appearing…
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Professor of English, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer: Director MSc Animation and VFX MDes Comics & Graphic Novels, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of English, University of Warwick
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute, Curtin University
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Associate professor, Deakin University
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Visiting Professor of Practice (Journalism), City, University of London
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Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS and Aalto University Finland, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Professor of Cultural Studies and Research Director of the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit), The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Comic Studies, University of Dundee
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Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Professor of Mass Communication, Media and Communication Science, Jacobs University Bremen
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, Indiana University
