Malcolm Paul Evans (born 20 December 1945) is a New Zealand cartoonist residing in Auckland.
Up until September 2014, when his work could no longer be tolerated, Evans' cartoons appeared daily in three major New Zealand newspapers, The Manawatu Standard, The Timaru Herald and The Christchurch Press. Evans still produces political cartoons for the Northland Age and still produces his Edna character, the ubiquitous farmer's wife, which has been running fortnightly since 1976 in New Zealand's largest farming newspaper Rural News. Evan's has a focus on Israel, its government and citizens, and regularly publishes anti-Zionism and anti-Israel cartoons.[1] Some of these cartoons are also antisemitic and meet the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.[2] Evans also produces cartoons fortnightly for New Zealand Dairy News and Dairy News Australia, personal cartoon caricature commissions, and also sculpts and paints.
Having first worked for The New Zealand Herald in the 1970s, when he succeeded Sir Gordon Minhinnick, Evans was again its cartoonist for six years from 1997 till 2003 when those opposed to his anti-Zionist and sometimes antisemitic cartoons, put pressure on the paper and, following Evans' subsequent refusal to stop drawing cartoon comments on the Israeli treatment of Palestinians, he was subsequently fired.[3][4] During his time at the New Zealand Herald he was twice judged New Zealand Cartoonist of the Year, a title he held at the time of his firing, along with that of President of the NZCIA - the New Zealand Cartoonists and Illustrators Association.
See also
- Political cartoons
- Working definition of antisemitism
- Three Ds of antisemitism
References
- ^ "Anti-Israel obsessive Malcolm Evans still spreading hate in Northland Age". Shalom.Kiwi. 2019-01-16. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ "Anti-Israel obsessive Malcolm Evans still spreading hate in Northland Age". Shalom.Kiwi. 2019-01-16. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ "Real History and the problems of caricaturing Israel". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 August 2003.
- ^ Cummings, Michael (November 2003). "Dumped cartoonist speaks out" (PDF). Te Waha Nui. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 April 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
External links
- Malcolm Evans Cartoons - home page for Malcolm Evans
- Editorial on Malcolm Evans Israeli cartoons at The New Zealand Herald
- Search for work by Malcolm Evans on DigialNZ
- Story by UN watchdog about Malcolm Evan's ongoing Anti-Israel campaign
- Link to collection of anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic cartoons by Malcolm Evans