In a small, muggy room inside a whitewashed house in Dakar, the capital of the West African country of Senegal, eight artists hunch over their drawing boards, sketching scenes for a new animated ...

The president is a gun-toting dairy farmer who is milking his “cowntry” dry. His brother takes the form of a pair of sinister sunglasses eyeing the national pension fund. His son is a toddler in an ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting just a few of the trailblazing women who made important contributions during the Golden Age of Animation.

Introduction / Peter Limb -- Nigeria -- The art of Bisi Ogunbadejo / Tejumola Olaniyan -- Wetin you carry? The Nigeria police force in cartoonists' space / Ganiyu A. Jimoh -- South Africa -- South ...

Carlos Amato’s career as a cartoonist began, as he puts it, with a “lucky pitch”. After a decade in the newsroom as an editor and writer, Amato was burnt out and doodling his way through meetings when ...

Three Ugandan veteran cartoonists, John Jones Salongo Sserwanga, Willy Ochaya, and James Tumusiime were making cartoons in the 1970s during the reign of dictator Idi Amin. A new documentary, The ...

In a recent interview with the New York Public Library, Amy Kurzweil described her cartoons as studies in “erudite silliness.” Well, Kurzweil is certainly erudite—just check out those pencil-nub ...