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Thanks for reading our monthly dispatch from the weird and wonderful world of political cartooning! We have news to share about an upcoming exhibition, we’re giving away a drawing tablet (to a young cartoonist) and as always we share the most popular cartoons of the month.
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Website issues
As some of you may have noticed, we have had some issues with the platform in the last few weeks, especially with loading times of pages. We have done a website upgrade at the end of March, which lead to some unforeseen complications. Most notably of these was a sharp increase in (hostile) bot activity, overloading our server at times.
We’ve now resolved most issues; if you still encounter an issue, please send us an email.
Huion tablet give away!
From time to time, we receive products to review from manufacturers. After the review, these often end up sitting on a shelf at Cartoon Movement HQ, so we started giving them away to cartoonists who need them. This time, we want to give this tablet away to a young European cartoonist.
If you’re between 16 - 35 years, create political cartoons and are interested in getting a tablet for free, check out our blog for more details.
Exhibition: Designed to Provoke
The Cartoons in Court project has created an exhibition of court cases from 1749 up until now. Titled Designed to Provoke: Visual Humor in Court 1749 - 2025, the exhibition will premier at the International Salon of Caricature, Press and humor cartoons in Saint-Just-le-Martel, France, in October 2025. More details will follow in the coming months.
Other news
Cartoonists who want to send in their work from either the European Cartoon Award or the Kaktus Cartoon Award 2025 have only a couple of days left (deadlines are July 2 and July 9 respectively).
If you want to follow along with our Democratic Literacy and Humour research project, subscribe to the DELIAH Substack.
Take a look at the most popular cartoons from the last 30 days on our social media channels.
On Facebook: Children of Gaza by Osama Hajjaj
On Instagram: Playground by Tjeerd Royaards
On X: Counseling by James Mellor
On Bluesky: What would you have done? by Daniel Medina
Such powerful imagery and storytelling in this collection, this is cartooning at its most expressive. Simply brilliant.