Go, Read: Laura C. Mallonee And Cartoonists’ Plights, 2015 This article with a pair of publishers by Laura C. Mallonee provides a quick survey of some of the hits that international cartoonists have taken this calendar year. Its brevity might make it a good choice for a quick catch-up as to the shape of things out there. Cartoonists being murdered is its form of noxious evil, but cartoonists having their lives destroyed by court decisions involving money, jail time and physical violence against the person is just as real if a step back from that kind of severe sanction. I'm not sure what can be done: we've seen in Turkey that even focused attention on certain free-speech matters has limits, even with huge inducements at stake. We can never look away, though.
