Newspaper cartoonists: Drawing on women’s lives

报纸漫画家:描绘女性生活

The Conversation

2026-04-27

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Newspaper cartooning has a long history of using satire and humour to provide social commentary on the issues of the day – but how do female perspectives inform the approach, themes and tone of newspaper cartooning? Andrea Arroyo is from Mexico City. Her work as a dancer took her to New York in the early eighties. In the US, an exhibition of her visual art was picked up to feature in the New York Times and spawned a career as a newspaper cartoonist. Her influence as a dancer can be seen in her rhythmic, fluid line work. Her artwork about the Me Too movement won a United Nations award for Political Cartooning. Sarah Akinterinwa is from Kent in the UK. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she created a comic about a millennial couple called Oyin and Kojo, hoping to create better representation of Black British people in cartoons. After posting a daily drawing to social media, the cartoon editor of the New Yorker discovered her work and asked her to become a contributor. Sarah is also a cartoonist at The Guardian. Her strips tackle women’s issues, gender dynamics, friendships, relationships, health and politics. Produced by Elena Angelides and Jane Thurlow (Image: (L) Sarah Akinterinwa, credit Sarah Akinterinwa. (R) Andrea Arroyo, credit Felipe Galindo.)
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  • This is the programme that explores the female perspective and experience through the insights

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  • Now today we dedicate our programme to images, newspaper and magazine cartoons.

  • These have a long history of highlighting contemporary issues through satire and humour.

  • But to what extent are they shaped by female perspectives?

  • Who draw the world as they see it.

  • Sarah Akinterenwa from the UK joins us from Canada.

  • She started her comic strip on social media when the COVID pandemic stopped her work.

  • Her creations are now appearing in the New Yorker magazine and the Guardian newspaper in the UK.

  • And Andrea Arroyo from Mexico City, who now lives in New York.

  • In 2017, Andrea was the first woman to win a United Nations Award for political

  • cartooning for her piece on the Me Too movement.

  • Her artwork has been published by the New York Times and Latina magazine.