Rob Rogers’ “Brewed on Grant” wins The Rex Babin Memorial Award Excellence in Local Cartooning

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced Rob Rogers, and his “Brewed on Grant” in the Pittsburgh Current, has won the 2020 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning.  From the Pittsburgh Current notice: “Brewed on Grant,” a strip with musings on local politics and current events, originally ran for more than 20…

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2018 AAEC Convention Schedule Set

An international line-up of Americans Ward Sutton, Matt Bors, Brian Fies, and Rob Rogers; Canadians Terry Mosher, Wes Tyrell, and Graeme McKay; New Zealanders Sharon Murdoch, Toby Morris, Rod Emmerson, and Nigel Buchanan. Hosted by Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman and Salt Lake Tribune cartoonist and AAEC President Pat Bagley. Plus seminars, exhibits, business…

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Video: Cartooning after Charlie Hebdo from the AAEC convention

From the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention in Columbus, OH, comes video of the panel on the topic of cartooning in the post-Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Panelists included Dr. Mark McKinney (author of Redrawing French Empire in Comics), Michael Kahn, attorney and author (Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be), Matt Wuerker (Politico), and Rob…

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Andy Marlette, Rob Rogers are covering the RNC (Updated!)

At least two editorial cartoonists are covering the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL. The local cartoonist at the convention is Andy Marlette of the Pensacola News Journal. Flying in from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is Rob Rogers. From Andy’s coverage: The halls are filled with star-shirted delegates from Texas, camouflaged-capped NRA members, at least one…

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AAEC convention notes: Saturday

Saturday was last day of the AAEC convention’s panels and discussion. It kick started with Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer speaking about livable communities – a topic he has been passionate about in his professional career as a legislator, county commissioner, city councilman, and public works commissioner. Next up, Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist and Dick Tracy…

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AAEC convention notes: Thursday

Yesterday was the first full day of activities for the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists’ annual convention held this year in Portland OR. Mark Fiore kicked off the session, entitled “Appholes” on his experience working with Apple to get his iPhone app into the App Store. Next up was the “New Frontiers” panel Mike Keefe…

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