Cartoon Movement is a business that offers a global online platform for
editorial cartoons and
comics journalism
Comics journalism is a form of journalism that covers news or nonfiction events using the framework of comics, a combination of words and drawn images. Typically, sources are actual people featured in each story, and word balloons are actual quot ...
. Based in
The Hague, Netherlands
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...
, Cartoon Movement receives between 60 and 100 cartoons each day
from over 220 freelance cartoonists in over 80 countries. Submitted works are often purchased by corporate media publications.
History
Cartoon Movement began in 2010 when VJ Movement founders Thomas Loudon and Arend Jan van den Beld began working with editorial cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards to promote the political cartoon as a fundamental style of journalism and to support
freedom of the press
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic News media, media, especially publication, published materials, should be conside ...
and the rights of editorial cartoonists.
An early project at Cartoon Movement was a cartoon series by Royaards,
Matt Bors
Matt Bors (born 1983) is a nationally syndicated American editorial cartoonist and editor of online comics publication The Nib. Formerly the comics journalism editor for Cartoon Movement, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and 202 ...
, and others on conditions in Haiti after the
2010 Haiti earthquake
A disaster, catastrophic Moment magnitude scale, magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest (department), Ouest department, a ...
. The work was underwritten by a grant from the Dutch government.
The
Occupy movement
The Occupy movement was an international populist socio-political movement that expressed opposition to social and economic inequality and to the perceived lack of "real democracy" around the world. It aimed primarily to advance social and econo ...
was another early project, and Cartoon Movement received editorial cartoons from Occupy sources around the world.
Cartoon Movement supports
Cartoonists Rights Network, International and
human rights education
Human rights education (HRE) is the learning process that seeks to build up knowledge, values, and proficiency in the rights that each person is entitled to. This education teaches students to examine their own experiences from a point of view t ...
in schools.
See also
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List of cartoonists
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons. This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive.
Notable cartoonists
* Scott Adams, ''Dilbert''
* Charles Addams (1938-1988), macabre ...
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List of editorial cartoonists
This is a list of notable editorial cartoonists of the past and present sorted by nationality. An editorial cartoonist is an artist, a cartoonist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. The list is in ...
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Caricature
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, a ...
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Comics Studies
References
External links
Cartoon Movement website
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Alternative journalism organizations
Comics publishing companies
Companies based in The Hague
Dutch companies established in 2010
Editorial cartooning