Population Group Suspends Cartoon Contest

By: E&P Staff The Population Media Center has suspended its cartoon contest due to lack of funding, reported Daryl Cagle on his editorial-cartooning blog.

Cagle wrote: "The PMC is a great nonprofit organization that goes into third-world countries and fights overpopulation problems along with sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and the oppression of women. ...
The PMC also works to raise the consciousness of population-related issues in the first world, and one of their initiatives was a cartoon contest.

"Editorial cartoonists tend to draw on the issue of the day, and long-term issues like population control, sexually transmitted diseases, and the sexual abuse of women in the third world don't make the headlines and seldom end up on cartoonists' drawing boards. The PMS cartoon contest encouraged cartoonists to take a break from the issue of the day to focus on these long-term problems, and the winning cartoons gave the PMC a nice opportunity to publicize the problems."