Last week on toonpool.com (March 28 – April 3 2010)

Paul — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:41:31 +0000

Happy Easter, everyone! As you might have guessed, there have been plenty of egg-, bunny-, and crucification-themed cartoons over the last few days. As usual with recurring events, there is a stock of easter themed gags that will pop up each year. There’s bunnies stealing eggs, bunnies laying eggs or hatching from eggs, and the occasional Santa Claus. I am getting a little tired of these cartoons so here are some that avoid bunnies: there’s “Angry God”, “Sponsoring in Spanish Easter Processions”, “Eggs Benedict”, and “Easter 2010 B.C.”. The last one is prone to make historians and palaeontologists weep, but it’s nicely drawn.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Turkey wasn’t really Easter related. Then again, these days nothing is not Easter-related. Most cartoons emphasize the meeting’s potential for conflict which, admittedly, had been instrumentalized by both Merkel and Erdogan (here, here & here).

Introducing…

Evandro Alves is a promising new toonpool.com member from Brazil. Of his cartoons, I liked “standing ovations for a snake charmer” best. Note how the lower left part of the audience seems to be mesmerized by something outside of the panel, perhaps a giant video screen. I also liked the “smoker’s trophies” – reminded me of a skater I used to be friends with who kept his broken boards. Although the trophies in the cartoon are probably supposed to be his family’s lungs. The “Noah’s arc” one is a bit moralizing too, but it has animals with gas masks. And they look cute.

Cartoons of Interest

I can’t really tell why I like this cartoon by Mattiello. It’s about easter and dangereous eggs and it makes great use of the white space and vectorized color fields.

Paul Hellmich

Home of History

Battlestar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:11:20 +0000

Prizewinning cartoons and press photographs are now entering a museum in Bonn (former capital of West Germany). “Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland” (House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany) is presenting the exhibition “Rückblende 2008″ initiated by the Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz (state Rhineland-Palatinate) and the BDZV – Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger ((German newspapers publisher’s association).

Haus der Geschichte, Willy-Brandt-Allee 14, 53113 Bonn, Germany
18/03/2009 – 19/04/2009 – Tuesday – Sunday 09:00h – 19:00h (free entry).

Rückblende 2008:

Best editorial cartoons and press photographs of the year 2008? 2008: Again a year to say good bye to good old days (as once 2001 after 9/11)! After a fine summer, the world tumbled into a historical disaster of crashing banks and financial systems – together with all hopes for a rising star: Barack Obama. The world on the brink and in radical change: divine times for cartoonists!

By Ion Cozacu

By Ari Plikat

By Heiko Sakurai

Artists on toonpool.com joining the museum’s exhibition: