Mettre l’intime en bande dessinée. Un dialogue avec Léna Merhej et Noémie Honein by Michela De Giacometti, Laura Odasso

“…In this interview, we talk with Lebanese artists Léna Merhej and Noémie Honein about their respective practices and trajectories as cartoonists, a craft for which they are particularly known. …”
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Caricatura, censura y dictadura: los retratos cómicos de Videla (Argentina, 1976-1981) by Mara Burkart

“…Videla’s caricatures made under his presidency by Landrú, Sábat and Cascioli, the most prominent and prolific cartoonists in Argentina and published in important mass media such as the newspaper Clarin and the magazines Tia Vicenta (second period) and HUM®. …”
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Reaccionarios, traidores y otras malas hierbas políticas.La representación visual del antirrepublicanismo en El Motín (1881-1895) by Lara Campos Pérez

“…To this end, it analyses a selection of the illustrations published in this newspaper about this theme, regarding the characters the narrative sequence present in them, as well as the visual rhetoric resources used by the successive cartoonists who produced them. The aim is to elucidate the extent to which this image of the anti-republican «other» served as a binding force for the definition of a republican «we», at a time of great fragmentation within Spanish republicanism.…”
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The Masquerade in the Marketplace: dele jegede's Introspections and Reflections In Colors and Lines by Toyin Falola

“… This essay is about the art and life of dele jegede, one of the foremost Yoruba artists and cartoonists. The essay argues that dele jegede's oeuvre is a mirror of his life experiences and journeys depicting contemporary conditions of lifestyles, economics, and politics that he has witnessed, the harsh conditions of life in Africa, and the consciousness of exile. …”
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La cible Marx Dormoy (1936-1941) by Franck Tison

“…From then onwards, the former had to face regular shelling from the far-right press that meant to hold him up as a demon and a criminal. Cartoonists as well as journalists in that political trend thus found opportunities to vent their anticommunism, their anti-semitism as well as anti-republican stand. …”
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Retour à la page blanche après le choc du 11 Septembre by Yves Davo

“…In the days that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, a certain number of US cartoonists published their works about the event in a collection untitled 9-11: Emergency Relief. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…Cartoonists Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa, writing in a socially and culturally heteronormative context, give life to a fantasy: worlds that, instead of excluding dykes from public space, are entirely organized around lesbian characters. …”
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Quels horizons politiques pour l’Irlande au XIXe siècle ? Une étude de quelques caricatures du temps de Parnell by Pauline Collombier-Lakeman

“…In other words this paper will show how Irish cartoonists used horizon lines as spaces where they could represent the aspirations and expectations of the Irish nation.…”
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