Free Post cartooning The Economist on the economics of cartooning The Economist have been posting some older, evergreen (or “stock” content, for regular readers…) on Medium. The piece on cartooning is particularly worth reading: Cartoons go way back before newspapers.
Free Post cartooning Charlie Hebdo, the French tradition of satire, and cherry-picking cartoons There’s been a growing consensus online that Charlie Hebdo is a “racist” magazine. In fact, I’ve ended up in a couple of online skirmishes with people because of their insistence that use of #jesuischarlie was tantamount to identifying positively with racists. I