Earlier this year in April, the New York Times published a cartoon that was considered anti semitic, which caused protestors to roar “Shame on you!” outside their Manhattan headquarters on Eighth Avenue. Now the newspaper has decided to stop running editorial cartoons altogether. The cartoon, however, had nothing to do with The Times’ in house cartoonists, but was drawn by Portuguese artist António Moreira Antunes. It was an illustration of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as a dog on a leash, with the Star of David around his neck, held by a blind President Donald Trump wearing sunglasses and a yarmulke. …
Since its inaugural year in 1946, the National Basketball Association has gone through multiple changes. From the inclusion of the twenty-four second shot clock in 1954, to the three point shot in 1979, basketball has developed in various ways as an attempt to keep the game as up to date as possible. Kirk Goldsberry, a basketball writer and cartographer, has come out with a new book called Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA. In this book, Goldsberry applies his cartography, or mapmaking skills to the game of basketball. More specifically, he takes a …
In 2016, freshman Brock Turner, a nineteen-year-old university student at Stanford, was sentenced to a mere six months in prison following the sexual assault of a twenty-two year old woman only known to the public as ‘Emily Doe’. The case gained international popularity and ignited protests around the world. Everything from the trial, to Turner’s father’s pathetic attempt to defend his son, and the fact that he was actually released after only three months in county jail caused outrage to erupt around the country. Image Via The New Yorker Two Stanford University graduate students came across the disturbing …
After a miniseries based on the commonly known “Central Park Five” case released, thousands of people are signing a petition which calls for a boycott of Linda Fairstein, the former New York City prosecutor, for her participation in the prosecution of five Latino and African American teenagers. The petition advises book publishers and retailers to cut ties with Fairstein, who is the author of many mystery novels, one of which was released this year. It was created after When They See Us was released on Netflix, which chronicles the case where the five teenagers were falsely accused of assaulting and …
2019 has been a huge year for comic book adaptations, from Avengers: Endgame which was released earlier this year, to Joker, which is set to release this October. However, not all iconic comic books are based on superheroes. With the current overflow of Marvel and DC superhero movies, we tend to forget that some of the best graphic novels don’t necessarily revolve around characters with supernatural abilities. Here are some classics you may already be familiar with, but still need the recognition they deserve. Persepolis Image Via Amazon Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi. It portrays the author’s …
