 Click on the image of Garfield to take a look at some of the cartoons that artists donated for newspapers to run on International Literacy Day. Main partners were Cartoon Arts International, Atlantic Syndication-UniversalPress Syndicate, The National Cartoonists Society (USA), along with newspapers and newspaper associations all over the world. STILL AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: The Advertisements you can publish anytime. THE CARTOON PROJECT Cartoonists worldwide offered newspapers a panel or strip to run on International Literacy Day (8 September) to remind the world about the joy of reading, and that newspapers are a great reading option. Jim Davis, creator of Garfield (pictured above) is among several major cartoonists who donated cartoon that any newspaper could use on that day via WAN. WAN also encouraged newspapers to ask the cartoonists on their staffs to join in the effort. Partners in this first-ever effort included CartoonArts International, which represents political cartoonists from 75 countries; National Cartoonists Society, a U.S.-based organization that unites the creators of some of the world's most-used comic strips and panels; and Atlantic Syndication Partners (the international division of Universal Press Syndicate). WAN member newspaper associations, especially in Germany and Belgium, persuaded several cartoonists to answer the call, as did individual newspaper publishers and cartoonists themselves. Michel Cambon, who does the Press Freedom Day cartoons WAN offers free to any newspaper also created some designs for this effort. For more information, please contact amcmane@wan.asso.fr |
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What they did: CARTOON CONTEST Pia Räihälà at the Finnish daily Keskipohjanmaa (circ. 30 000) published the Garfield cartoon with no texts and ask readers to fill in the bubbles. "Then we chose the three best writers and published the cartoon with their texts, plus the original cartoon," she explained. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Click HERE to let us know. Our partners:  Since 2003, Norske Skog, the Norway- based global newsprint producer, has supported WAN's efforts to develop young readership.    |