Global Satire

Global Satire looks at world events through the lens of political cartoons, comedy, graphic journalism and wit (ha-ha and dark) in all its forms. Our focus is every corner of the globe. The idea is to explore what satirists around the world are poking fun at, or darkly laying bare. Our assumption is that a cartoon, joke, or wry comment can explain a vexing political issue as well (and often better) than any amount of punditry. Created by Carol Hills. 
An illustration of a person holding a book
Global Satire
The writer who published a satirical magazine while hiding in a Dutch home during WWII
Malaysian Chinese comedian Nigel Ng poses as "Uncle Roger" to critique people's culinary endeavors. His YouTube channel has nearly half a billion views.
Food
Uncle Roger, YouTube’s culinary avenger for Asian food
A man is shown sitting cross-legged with dozens of cartoons on the floor all around him.
Global Cartoons
Pedro Molina’s fight for fair elections in Nicaragua through cartoons
An array of bitcoins
Top of The World
El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender
Secondary school students play in the courtyard at the College Henri Matisse school during its reopening in Nice as French children return to their schools after the summer break.
Top of The World
European students return to class; King Salman sacks Saudi commander; Hotel Rwanda figure arrested abroad
A page from "The Structure is Rotten, Comrade."
Arts, Culture & Media
This surrealist graphic novel delves into architecture and social change
ruined homes in seoul during the korean war
History
Scenes from Seoul unearthed in unpublished collection of Korean war-era photos
Zapiro drew this cartoon to accompany the Mail & Guardian’s 2013 expose on the lavish state-funded ‘security improvements’ made to Jacob Zuma’s private home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province. They included a visitor's center, amphitheater, additional h
Global Satire
This South African cartoonist draws on 20 years of Zuma ‘WTF’ scandals
Political cartoon showing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the style of Ikea instructions.
Global Satire
In new book, Lebanese Satirist Karl reMarks skewers Middle East pundits
Justice holds her scales while someone stands ontop of her in this political cartoon
Venezuelans cartoon their country’s crisis
Victoria Lomasko is shown in this portrait photo with black coat standing in front of an illustrated wall.
Arts, Culture & Media
Looking for stories of Russia beyond Putin? This artist has the answer.
Bassem Youssef stands in front of a microphone in a recording studio. Behind him is a screen lit up with the title of his new podcast: "Remade in America with Bassem Youssef."
Arts, Culture & Media
After the Egyptian military took away a political satirist’s show, he podcasts about his new life in LA
Make way for Trump. Key US allies are doing a lot of wincing and jaw-dropping this week as Trump seems to diss them at every opportunity during his trip to Europe.
Global Cartoons
President Trump goes to Europe — and satirists have a field day
Men in camouflague fatigues walk down a street lined with rubble from destroyed buildings.
Global Satire
With an iPhone and the internet, this Syrian satirist is having conversations his countrymen can’t
Supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Tahrir Square after presidential election results in Cairo, Egypt April 2, 2018. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won 97 percent of the vote with virtually no opposition.
Global Satire
The arrest of an Egyptian satirist shines a light on the government’s system of intimidation
Equatorial Guinean illustrator and comics artist Ramon Nse Esono Ebale looks on in court in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on Feb 27, 2018. The prosecutor of Equatorial Guinea dropped all charges against Ebale because of 'lack of evidence'.
Arts
Cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé finally released from jail in Equatorial Guinea
A cartoon of Catherine Deneuve
Culture
Cartoonists respond to the French open letter critical of the #MeToo movement
a cartoon drawn by cartoonist Eaten Fish that shows a map of Russia with a sad face, a tear in one eye and the words "I am only a refugee" wit the "I" in the shape of a fishbone.
Media
How Eaten Fish survived four years in refugee detention with his cartoons, social media and a network of activist friends
Left: Kim Jong-Un as the class bully, El Universal Opinion, Mexico, September 2, 2017. Right: Catalonia removes a key piece of Spain, El Universal Opinion, Mexico, October 14, 2017.
Arts
The wordless, surreal and very Cuban satire of Angel Boligán
A stack of Charlie Hebdo cartoon collections in the publicity office of the satirical newspaper in in Paris.
Culture
Brace yourself America, Charlie Hebdo has arrived
The work of Ramón Esono Ebalé at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.
Arts
A cartoonist out to unseat a dictator is arrested
Samia Orosemane tweaks stereotypes about her North African community in her one-woman show in Paris.
Arts
Why French Muslim comedian Samia Orosemane says she’s like a UFO
Press freedom activists hold copies of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet during a demonstration in solidarity with the jailed members of the newspaper outside a courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 28, 2017.
Media
Cartoonist freed but other journalists still held in Turkey’s controversial media trial
Trump's dragon breath melts the earth ice cream cone
Arts
Trump asked, ‘At what point do they start laughing at us as a country?’ Um, right now.
Students use the final version of a children's book to teach kids how to identify false health claims in a classroom in Uganda.
Media
A comic textbook helps dispel bogus health claims in Uganda
Trump pointing at dove.
Culture
Trump’s big-league Middle East trip through the eyes of an Israeli satirist
cartoon shows new special prosecutor James Mueller looking under microscope at Putin and Trump
Global Politics
Ah, the joys and challenges of translating Trump into Russian
Putin holding a Prez dispenser with Trump's head on top of it. Putin clicks it and intelligence chunks come out.
Media
Cartoonists worldwide respond to an unprecedented week of Trump drama
Trump shown as a marionette doing a Russian folk dance. The person pulling the strings has him kick James Comey.
Conflict
Trump fired Comey: Cue the hilarious cartoons worldwide
image of prisoner separated from wife
Justice
A Palestinian cartoonist draws the Israeli occupation
cover of Guy Delisle's new book, Hostage, showing the hostage handcuffed to a radiator
Arts
This is what a complete lack of freedom looks like
photo of Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan of ArmComedy, Armenia's first satirical news program
Global Politics
Look out Colbert, Armenia’s got funnymen with a few jokes for America
cartoon of ISIS militants putting up Marine LePen poster
Culture
French election anxiety is perhaps best expressed in cartoons
Lebanese-American comedian Nemr. He's as comfortable performing in Saudi Arabia as he is in the US.
Culture
Lebanon’s King of Comedy is on a global mission to make everyone laugh at the same joke. It’s working.
Bassem Youssef interviewing people on the streets of Cairo in the early days of his transition from a heart surgeon to a political satirist, November 2011.
Global Politics
‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ is trying to rebuild his comedy career in the US. It’s hard.
Sudanese asylum seeker Abdul Aziz Muhammed, who has been stuck in a Australian-funded immigration detention camp on a remote island in Papua New Guinea for nearly four years. His only hope is that the Obama-era agreement to resettle refugees like him to t
Culture
New hope for a Sudanese asylum-seeker stuck in an Australian offshore detention camp
He's with us. He's with us. Oh dear, he's gone! Vladimir Putin and President Trump react to the resignation of Michael Flynn as National Security adviser.
Global Politics
Flynn? Russia? Presidential tweets? Political cartoonists around the globe weigh in
This cartoon by Eaten Fish is playing off the name of the Australian-funded offshore detention camp in Papua New Guinea where the Iranian cartoonist is being held. It's called the Manus Regional Processing Centre but many hundreds of the aslylum seekers t
Justice
The Trump Administration says it will honor the Obama-era deal with Australia to resettle its offshore detainees. That’s good news for cartoonist Eaten Fish.
Cartoon of Trump with hair forming Nazi salute
Culture
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz on satire in a time of Donald Trump
Tyrus Wong
Arts
Famed animator who played a big role in the creation of Disney’s ‘Bambi’ dies at 106
Trump is coming.
Media
A Trump-filled Christmas in cartoons
News Thump
Conflict
The Aleppo tragedy has left one Arab satirist with nothing to say
Trump in a China shop.
Global Politics
Trump’s call with Taiwan spawned a wave of cartoons
"The Skeptic" illustration from Andrew North's The Big Draw: Selling the Soviet Past.
Culture
Take a tour of the ‘Home Depot of Soviet past’
Since Nicolas Maduro became president in 2013, the Venezuelan government has arrested and detained thousands of citizens. Most but not all are let go within a few days. One who remains incarcerated is opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. Another is Joshua Ho
Justice
What it’s like being a political prisoner in Venezuela under Maduro
Man: That thing you mentioned before about how we should move the sign to the entrance, somehow makes me think that it would be a great idea to move the sign to the entrance! Woman: Great idea Bengt. Man: Thanks!
Media
Sweden opens a hotline to report mansplaining
The host of The Daily Show Trevor Noah's new memoir is called Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.
Books
Trevor Noah gets personal
Steffen Kverneland stands in front of a large mural in the Tøyen neighborhood of a Oslo created from the cover of his graphic biography of Edvard Munch. The mural was created by Knverneland and another Norwegian, Monica Tollnes.
Arts
There’s more to Norwegian artist Edvard Munch than ‘The Scream’
Rolling Blackouts
Media
Sarah Glidden wants her non-fiction comics to be a ‘gateway drug’ to learning about tough issues
Venezuelan cartoonist-in-exile Rayma Suprani turns the Mexican immigrants rhetoric of Donald Trump on its head.
Arts
A Venezuelan cartoonist forced into exile still draws the repression back home
Turkey's military has staged several coups over the years but this time, despite its might, it failed.
Culture
President Erdogan’s attempts to silence Turkish satirists: not working
Brexit: Brandan Reynolds, South Africa
Arts
The vote that set cartoonists off
Maz Jobrani's character Jimmy Vestwood, an Iranian, panics when during a party to celebrate his winning a Green Card Lottery visa to the United State, his American flag is accidentally set on fire from a cigarette butt flicked into his yard by a neighbor.
Culture
Maz Jobrani’s new comedy turns Middle Eastern stereotypes on their heads
President Barack Obama's famous mic-drop becomes a drone-drop.
Arts
A Sudanese human rights activist finds inspiration in America’s civil rights movement
Nicolas Vadot's cartoon remembering Prince
Media
Cartoonists from around the world are mourning Prince
Look Who's Back begins with Adolf Hitler waking up in 2015 on the site of his bunker in Berlin.
Arts
Yes, it’s OK for Germans to laugh about Hitler. Here’s why.
A Malaysian artists's caricatures of the scandal plagued prime minister as a sinister clown have spurred a wider protest.
Arts
Malaysian street artist makes a clown of prime minister
Marian Kamensky
Conflict
Cartoonists from around the world respond to the Brussels attack
Emad Hajjaj, Jordan
Media
10 cartoons from around the world reacting to President Obama’s Cuba visit
Syrian filmmaker and satirist Firas Alshater says Europe will embrace its new refugees, but it just might take a while.
Justice
He trusts you. Do you trust this Syrian refugee?