On Tuesday, April 25, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, formalized his candidacy for the next presidential election in November 2024 to "finish the job", according to his new slogan. He will then have the venerable age of 82, already the oldest president in the country's history.
If his experience and endurance reassure his supporters, his health is still debated. Joe Biden regularly has embarrassing memory lapses and seems weaker and weaker.
The fact is that his likely rival Donald Trump, only four years his junior, is no better. If the legal affairs that currently occupy him do not prevent his candidacy, the Americans will be entitled in 2024 to a thrilling duel of octogenarians.
This week, the American cartoonist KAL, whose real name is Kevin Kallaugher, ironically on the age of the two men. He has published more than 8,000 drawings and has been on the covers of more than 140 magazines.
He has contributed to The Economist of London (since 1978) and The Baltimore Sun (since 1988). Kal worked for ten years in London as a cartoonist for publications such as The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, Today and The Mail on Sunday.
Rewarded on numerous occasions, he has received the Berryman Prize awarded by the National Press Foundation (in 2002 and 2018) or the Grand Prize for Drawing of the Year in Europe, awarded by Press Cartoon Europe (in 2014). He was also among the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 (press cartoon category).
Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.
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