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Joep Bertrams is a Dutch artist who began his career as a children's book illustrator, but is best-known since the late 1980s for his sharp political cartoons. His political cartoons not only appear in his home country, but are syndicated in Germany, France and the United States as well. His cartoon refers to the decision of the international edition of the New York Times to stop publishing political cartoon following a controversy with one cartoon.

Hicabi Demirci was born in Samsun, Turkey in 1968. He finished Faculty of Sciences at the University of Ankara in 1992. For a long time, he was part of the animation studio. Today his works include book, magazine and journal covers, yielding successful results in the field of graphic arts. He has been given awards in various national and international cartoon competitions. In his view, journalism is meant to expose power.

Jitet Kustana was born in 1967 in Semarang (Java - Indonesia) and still lives there. He is one of the best known and most renowned cartoonists of his country and has won many awards. This cartoon shows the power of satire to defy those who would abuse power.

For more than 30 years, Bruce MacKinnon has been the editorial cartoonist for the Halifax Chronicle Herald in Nova Scotia, Canada. Over his career he has won numerous regional, national and international awards. His work has been published and exhibited across the globe, and is part of the permanent collections of the National Archives of Canada, the U.S. Library of Congress and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia among other galleries and institutions. He is a member of the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada.