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de Adder, Lachapelle, Parkins are Illustrated Commentary Finalists

The National Newspaper Awards of Canada has released the list of nominees for this year. In the newly renamed category of “Illustrated Commentary” the finalists for their work in 2025 are Michael de Adder, Judith Lachapelle, and David Parkins.

Illustrated Commentary 

Michael de Adder, The Globe and Mail, for his political satire on the impact of the Trump presidency. 

Judith Lachapelle, La Presse, for her multi-panel illustration about daily life in Ukraine and the challenges of travelling into an active conflict.

David Parkins, The Globe and Mail, for a portfolio of cartoons ranging from domestic politics to international, to the search for missing and murdered Indigenous women.

National Newspaper Awards Illustrated Commentary finalists for 2025

The portfolios of the finalists can be viewed here.

“Editorial Cartooning” was one of the original seven categories of the National Newspaper Awards since the beginning in 1949 and every subsequent year until now. Following the lead of The Pulitzer Prizes the category has been renamed “Illustrated Commentary” beginning this year.

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  1. wouldnt “illustrated commentary” be visual artworks about editorializing (be it on ed page or op-ed, written or drawn) rather than editorial cartoon about real world stuff?

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