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Yaakov Kirschen drew his 'Dry Bones' comic strip, which at one point ran in 35 newspapers around the world, for over 50 years. (Image via Amazon.com/ via JTA)
May 9, 2025, 8:11 pm
‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years
The Brooklyn-born immigrant, who satirized and explained Israel’s politics and culture for largely English audiences at home and abroad, died last month at 87
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Boris tells the children the story of Purim in 'Rugrats' holiday special, aired March 22, 2024 (Screenshot via Amazon Prime Video).
March 26, 2024, 2:52 am
‘Rugrats’ Purim special has a grown-up lesson for wary US Jews
As antisemitism hits new highs amid the Israel-Hamas war, the cartoon adds to two past acclaimed holiday episodes with a message of courage and unity
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
An antisemitic cartoon published in Qatar on November 20, 2023, titled 'The Lie of Zionist Media.' (The Anti-Defamation League)
December 21, 2023, 11:34 pm
Antisemitic cartoons proliferate in Mideast amid Israel-Hamas war, ADL report finds
Illustrations published by Arabic-language press since October 7 tap into conspiracy theories and blood libel to criticize the war in Gaza
By ToI Staff
Cartoonist Roz Chast attends The Hatter's Mad Tea Party: 2018 Moth Ball at Capitale on June 5, 2018 in New York City. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for The Moth/AFP)
November 29, 2023, 1:41 am
Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of
The acclaimed illustrator, who has been at the magazine since 1978, takes readers on a nighttime tour of her phantasmagorical mind in her latest book, ‘I Must Be Dreaming’
By Risa Doherty
The 2010s was the decade of Netanyahu’s mastery of the black arts of political manipulation and manoeuvring. Despite charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, despite weekly demonstrations in Jerusalem, despite his wife’s loose understanding of the difference between state responsibility and domestic aggrandizement, Netanyahu saw off one opponent after another. (Yonatan Wachsmann, Calcalist December 3, 2020/Courtesy of Colin Shindler)
May 3, 2023, 1:48 pm
From pre-state to present, political cartoons paint picture of a dynamic Israel
New book uses the work of Israel’s leading editorial cartoonists, who hold the country’s leadership accountable through clever imagery and biting satire
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ed Koren, a legendary cartoonist, died at age 87 on April 14, 2023. (YouTube/screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 24, 2023, 6:55 am
The fuzzy, neurotic, unmistakably Jewish legacy of cartoonist Ed Koren
Koren, who died this month at 87, published well over 1,000 instantly recognizable cartoons in The New Yorker magazine over a six-decade career
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
File: Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee attends an event to honor veteran contributors of MAD Magazine at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society in Savannah, Georgia, October 11, 2011. (AP/Stephen Morton)
April 11, 2023, 8:40 am
Al Jaffee, cartoonist and creator of Mad’s Fold-In, dies at 102
An essential member of satirical magazine’s ‘Useful Gang of Idiots,’ he created self-explanatory ‘Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions,’ amused fans for decades until retiring at 99
By Hillel Italie
French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo's publication director, cartoonist and writer Laurent Sourisseau, known as Riss, attends a commemorative ceremony marking the 8th anniversary of the 2015 deadly Islamist terror attack on the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket in Paris, January 9, 2023. (Julien De Rosa/AFP)
January 10, 2023, 10:10 pm
Undeterred by threats, Charlie Hebdo publishes more Khamenei cartoons
A week after angering Tehran with caricatures of ayatollah, French satirical magazine doubles down, says ‘laughing at themselves has never been a strong point of tyrants’
By AFP
Kawkabani, star of an animated series launched by Qatar's first animation studio Nefaish Animation ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. (YouTube)
May 15, 2022, 8:25 am
Cartoon alien aims to ease culture shock ahead of World Cup in Qatar
Creators bid to provide soccer fans with a soft landing by introducing them to Qatari culture ahead World Cup; show available on YouTube
By Anne Levasseur
David Sipress and cover of memoir 'What's So Funny?' (Photo by Nina Subin, cover courtesy of Mariner Books/ via JTA)
March 15, 2022, 3:52 am
New Yorker cartoonist David Sipress smiles through the pain in a new memoir
In ‘What’s So Funny?’ the Jewish son of Eastern European immigrants talks about growing up in New York, defying his parents’ expectations and finding inspiration in everyday life
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Kambiz Derambakhsh (CC BY-SA, Masih Azarakhsh, Flickr)
November 7, 2021, 7:00 pm
Prominent Iranian cartoonist dies of COVID at 79
Kambiz Derambakhsh, known for sketch of faceless everyman, won acclaim and had his art published around the world
By AFP
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
February 26, 2021, 9:06 am
Iran’s supreme leader says women in cartoons must wear hijabs
Unclear if ruling issued by Ali Khamenei will be enforced; foreign films showing unscarved women can be screened in Iran, but locally made productions are banned from doing so
By ToI Staff
Clockwise from top left: 'Bukra fil Mish Mish' poster; L to R: David, Shlomo, and Herschel Frenkel, with the poster for a Mish Mish film; director Tal Michael; Mish Mish opposite real-life Lebanese singer Sabah. (Courtesy Menemsha Films/ photo of Michael courtesy Michael)
February 18, 2021, 11:38 pm
‘Jewish Disney bros’ who founded Egypt animation industry make triumphant return
Tal Michael’s film ‘Bukra fil Mish Mish’ focuses on the Frenkels, a long-forgotten trio who launched a cartoon company by their bootstraps in the 1930s before being forced to flee
By Rich Tenorio
President Reuven Rivlin working to establish a unity government following an election. By Amos Biderman, published in Haaretz, September 19, 2019 (Courtesy of Haaretz / President's Residence)
September 13, 2020, 11:33 pm
Rivlin pokes cartoon fun at himself, previous presidents for his 81st birthday
Exhibit opening Monday at President’s House follows the lives and histories of Israel’s presidents, as only cartoonists can
By ToI Staff
In this May 29, 2010 file photo, a porter holds an inked and water-painted original panel from the 1938 'King Ottokar's Sceptre' album drawn by Belgian creator Herge during the auction of rare memorabilia of Tintin, at the Drouot auction's house, in Paris (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
June 24, 2020, 11:08 am
Tintin cover satirizing Hitler to go under the hammer
Drawing could go for more than $395,000 when it comes up for auction in Paris
By AFP
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