Tunisian municipal elections, 6 May 2018

For the first municipal elections in Tunisia after the revolution: no participation (only about 34% of the population entitled voted against 68,4% in the 2014 elections), young people on the sidelines, women on the front lines and civic lists, these are the keywords in the aftermath of the vote. Elections in silence. Even the press […]

Cartoon Movement competition: “The Art of resistance” – results

With a total 1781 submissions from 76 countries we think our first international cartoon competition was a huge success! Out of all these submissions we made a shortlist of 200 cartoons; on March 5, this shortlist was presented to a professional jury, tasked with the difficult job to select the cartoons that will be featured […]

UNESCO World Press Freedom day (3rd of May)

Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by […]

Firts of May – best wishes!

First of May, International Workers’ day, for workers that (nearly) do not exist any more  – Gallery Best wishes from Libex

Macron-Tintin in America

With his hairless face, youthful silhouette, piercing blue eyes, almost hairstyle with a puff, his fearlessness and willingness to fight, his liberalism tinged with Christian-social-democraticy, his certainty to defend the fundamental values ​​of Western liberal democracy, French President Emmanuel Macron has everything from the paper hero of Hergé: Tintin. Like him he is surrounded by […]

Erdogan, strike again the press and cartoonists

14 Cumhuriyet staff emprisoned on terrorism charges From Reuters,  Thursday, April 26, 2018 Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart, along with 13 others, was sentenced to jail today, the culmination of a long sham trial resulting from a crackdown on political opponents by Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan in response to a failed coup attempt in November of 2016. A […]

Call for cartoons:International Cartoon Exhibition on Media Literacy 2018

INTRODUCTION: Not all television shows or radio broadcasts present educational information. The information tends to be packaged according to industry interests. In fact, not infrequently the television and radio media are used for the benefit of a particular group or person. There are many also present violent impressions, ethnic offensive, religion race and intergroup (SARA), […]

Anglo-French-Amercican strikes on Siria – critical points of view

The Franco-English-American strikes on Siria, created many comments and critica from cartoonists of all part of the world, written or drawn. Libex is proud to propose you some of them.   Assad, Putin, Iran and Israel By Michel Kichka, April 10, 2018 website: https://en.kichka.com It is undeniable that the presence on our doorstep of the […]

Results of the XX° Portocartoons competition

Francisco Punal Suarez comments, on Fany Blog, the risults of the XX° Porto Cartoon concorso, chich central theme was “Clean the planet“. A large success with  2.500 cartoons of 550 artists coming from 80 different countries. To read the article of Francisco Punal (in italian and Spanish, see : https://fany-blog.blogspot.be/2018/04/il-xx-portocartoon-annuncia-i-suoi-premi.html The winner are: 1- Nikola Listes (Croacia); […]

Macron the European

Having had the possibility to assist to the Macron’s debate on EU on April 17 in the European Parliament, Libex offers you a summary of this debate, illustrated – thank you to all the cartoonists who sent their drawings. For the first time in the history of the European Parliament, the president of a large […]