The word "cartoonist" is a valid and commonly used word in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who creates cartoons or comic strips. For example: "The talented cartoonist worked hard to bring their comic strip to life."
In Ecuador, there are fears that cartoonist Xavier Bonilla may face criminal charges over an image ridiculing a fumbling speech by a politician in President Rafael Correa's ruling party.
Guardian Australia has already made several high profile appointments in 2014 including Walkley award-winning cartoonist Andrew Marlton (First Dog On The Moon) in April and Dave Earley, The Courier Mail's engagement editor, who will join Guardian Australia in mid-July as deputy audience development editor.
In 2012, First Dog won a prestigious Walkley Award for the best political cartoon of 2012 for the cartoon 'Drowning' and was named the MOAD Museum of Australian Democracyy) cartoonist of the year in 2011.
In February, a gunman apparently inspired by the attack in Paris, opened fire at a free expression event in Copenhagen; his target was a controversial Swedish cartoonist who had depicted the prophet Muhammad in his drawings.
For example, in Malaysia, the cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known as Zunar, faces more than 40 years in prison if found guilty of sedition during a trial that is due to begin tomorrow (20 May).
The well-known cartoonist Luz, who survived because he had a hangover and was late for the editorial meeting, has announced he will leave in September, saying every issue produced without his dead friends and colleagues is a "torture".
Sri Lankan cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda, whose critical drawings of the Rajapaksa government were widely disseminated, went missing in 2010.
Now award-winning fantasy novelist Gaiman, acclaimed cartoonist Bechdel, Maus creator Spiegelman, Reading Lolita in Tehran author Azar Nafisi and American author and journalist George Packer have been named as new hosts at the event, which PEN confirmed would have heightened security.
Jonathan Shapiro, aka Zapiro, a leading political cartoonist, published an image in South Africa's Times newspaper showing Jordaan leading a duck stamped with the words "$10 million bribe".
Mr Onthemoon has been the full time editorial cartoonist for Crikey since 2007.
And I was gay And he killed himself and I … became a lesbian cartoonist".
