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Matt Bors is an editorial cartoonist with United Feature Syndicate and editor at cartoonmovement.com. He is based in Portland, OR.
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Category Archives: Haiti
The World interview
I was interviewed by Marco Werman for PRI’s The World today about the comics journalism from Haiti. You can listen here.
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Haiti’s Scapegoats
When hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their homes, families and livelihood in the earthquake two years ago, Haiti’s gays and lesbians experienced an outburst of homophobia. With a majority of its population devoutly Catholic, many LGBT Haitian’s are not … Continue reading
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Tents Beyond Tents
Cross-posted at Cartoon Movement Today, on the second anniversary of the earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, we publish the first chapter in a 75-page comics journalism project focused on life in Haiti two years after the country was devastated … Continue reading
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Haiti
This Thursday on Cartoon Movement we will publish the first chapter in a 75-page comics journalism project focusing on life in Haiti two years after it was devastated by an earthquake. The first chapter, “Tents Beyond Tents”, focuses on the … Continue reading
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Spotlight on Haiti
Editor and Publisher has a write-up of Cartoon Movement’s trip to Haiti: Both Bors and Royaards knew from the start that in order to get to the heart of the issues in Haiti, they would need to focus on Haiti’s … Continue reading
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The Art Of Peace
The infamous Danish Muhammad cartoons, published in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30th, 2005, led to protests, riots, and over 100 deaths around the world. The discussion that followed about the balance between free speech and incitement in cartoons, between … Continue reading
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Haiti Update 7
The final update from our trip: The first part of the Haiti project (the trip itself) ended last week, and the traveling party has returned safely to San Francisco, Portland and Amsterdam respectively. So what’s next? Well, we have some … Continue reading
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No Comics Week 2
My trip in Haiti comes to an end this week. Things tend to take a while to get done in the developing world so I haven’t had time to squeeze in any editorial cartoons yet. I’ve been running around Port-au-Prince … Continue reading
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Haiti Project: Update 5
Over here. Although the headlines are dominated by the shooting in Norway, the drought in Africa and the debt of the United States (not to mention the death of Amy Winehouse), we still want to give an update from the … Continue reading
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Haiti Update 4
A quickslide show about what we’ve been up to in Haiti.
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