Cartoon Ethics, Cartooning Ethics and Standards, and Comics Ethics

UK Morning Star cartoon was ‘offensive to trans people’

The UK Morning Star published a cartoon that 'was offensive to trans people," the newspaper itself admitted. In a Feb....

The Daily Californian published a coronavirus cartoon with a "harmful stereotype of the Asian ethnic group," the paper admitted in...

The Bangor Daily News in Maine has now apologized for publishing the comic strip Close to Home, which showed the...

The Calgary Herald apologized after a cartoon offended readers. The cartoon, from the Close to Home strip by John McPherson,...

A cartoon about an asylum-seeking man apparently attempting to assault a nurse didn't break press guidelines and standards, the Australian...

Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten stands by its cartoon about the Chinese outbreak of coronavirus, despite calls from China to apologize. The...

The Otago Daily Times' cartoon making light of the deadly Samoan measles crisis broke press guidelines, the New Zealand media...

Cartoon ethics and standards have become more high-profile in recent years as news outlets have apologized for and retracted cartoons...

The Otago Daily Times, a newspaper in New Zealand, offended readers with a cartoon about the measles outbreak in Samoa....