Industry news for the professional cartoonist
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (the renovated AAEC website will return soon) has opened the window for submitting cartoons for the 2023 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning. The deadline to enter is Friday, August 25, 2023. The full notice as released by the AAEC: SACRAMENTO, CA — The Association of…
Ann Telnaes lays out today’s danger, both in terms of what happens in the case of an authentic Red Wave, and in a case in which apathy and pessimism cause people who value small-d democracy to stay home. Granted, even if the GOP were to take both houses of Congress, we’d have two years of…
Editorial cartoonist Pascal Élie has passed away. Pascal Élie 1959 – October 21, 2022 From Terry Mosher and The Montreal Gazette: My friend Pascal Élie, editorial cartoonist for Le Devoir, died at 63 last week after struggling with a debilitating disease diagnosed when he was only 49. Always the professional, Pascal supplied cartoons for…
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has long championed those cartoonists who work for small and local newspapers, and once again in 2022 the AAEC is looking for the best in political cartooning. Named after the late Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, The Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning focuses on state and local…
Information — that is, real information — is beginning to emerge from Uvalde, though perhaps too late to ever displace the rumors. But one thing that has been clear almost from the moment of the murders is that, as Ann Telnaes puts it, mass shootings are part of our culture. The outrageous part is not…
Steve Breen (Creators) sums up everything we know so far about Uvalde: Children were murdered, parents were devastated and we’re hearing a lot of same-old same-old from the top. As noted here the other day, President Biden did step up with a masterful, furious speech demanding to know when we were going to finally do…
Newsday’s Matt Davies is the 2021 recipient of the “Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excellence in Local Cartooning.” The panel of judges also named Robert Ariail, David Horsey, and Marc Murphy as finalists. The award was announced online on Friday, Oct. 8, during Zoomfest ‘21, the virtual convention of the Association of American…
Wiley Miller somewhat overstates things in today’s Non Sequitur (AMS), but, then again, overstatement is part of the cartoon toolbox, and, if he’s laying it out in starkly binary terms, he’s certainly correct that anyone who can’t see the choices is astonishingly clueless. Rob Rogers (Ind) keeps it on this earthly plain, and the…
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists announced its 2020 award winners during its (delayed and cancelled and now smaller and virtual) “convention” held the first weekend of October. The John Locher Memorial Award, for promising young cartoonists, was announced last month but made official this month. © Catherine Gong The AAEC/John Locher Memorial Award —…
(Bill Bramhall) (Matt Wuerker) We start today with a Juxtaposition in which Bill Bramhall explains the issue and Matt Wuerker provides an example. It’s hard to believe there was once a time when, at each party’s national convention, the platform committee would craft the platform and then — then — the party would nominate someone…
Utah in November. THU, NOV 14 AT 7 PM MST Pat Bagley’s 40th Anniversary Celebration The tickets to get in are free, but going fast. France in October A group of CagleCartoonists headed to France for the 38ème Salon International de la Caricature, du Dessin de Presse et d’Humour, joining an international assemblage…
Long day, short entry. The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists annual convention got off to a start yesterday with a board meeting followed by a reception and dinner at the Columbus Metropolitan Club, which holds such forums regularly. As such, the discussion of free speech and the status of editorial cartooning was geared to a…
If you are headed to the AAEC Convention/CXC Festival be sure to pick up this limited edition, soon-to-be-collectors’-item book available only there this weekend. As the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists tweeted: Politico’s [Matt Wuerker] & a slew of guest cartoonists have put together a book that ties into “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists & the…
There are a lot of environmental cartoons out there and perhaps there is some shift in public perception. However, I’m not prepared to say “Now they get it!” until I see more proof. But Pat Bagley lays out the situation without predicting what will happen next, and he’s on firm ground. Let’s begin with the…
Earlier today Mike Peterson mentioned some events happening in non-Upstate New York. Well, if you are headed to Upstate New York sometime in the next two months you may want stop by the Ellenville Public Library and Museum for R. Robert Pollak‘s “A Cavalcade of American Newspaper Comic Strip Art” exhibit. It features Pollak’s collection…